Near-Earth Object Impact News

Posted August 28, 2008:

• Rosetta Spacecraft On Its Way To Meet Asteroid Steins

Posted August 26, 2008:

• NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out Of Victoria Crater

Posted July 18, 2008:

• NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth As An Alien World

Posted July 15, 2008:

• Tunguska Catastrophe: Evidence Of Acid Rain Supports Meteorite Theory

Posted July 10, 2008:

• Source Of Most Common Meteorites Discovered

Posted July 9, 2008:

• Evidence Of Water Found Deep Within The Moon: Dampens Moon-Formation Theory
• Solar Spin Put On Asteroid Moon Formation

Posted July 3, 2008:

• Volcanic Activity Shaped Mercury After All

Posted July 2, 2008:

• Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana

Posted July 1, 2008:

• Asteroid Impacts On Earth: A Protection Plan
• What Hit Siberia 100 Years Ago? Tunguska Event Still Puzzles Scientists

Posted June 27, 2008:

• SOHO Discovers Its 1,500th Comet

Posted June 25, 2008:

• Largest Crater In Solar System Revealed By NASA Spacecraft
• Evidence Of Massive Asteroid Impact On Mars Supported By Computer Simulations

Posted June 24, 2008:

• Moon-Bound NASA Spacecraft Passes Major Preflight Tests

Posted June 19, 2008:

• Lavas From Hawaiian Volcano Contain Fingerprint Of Planetary Formation
• Surprisingly Rapid Changes In Earth’s Core Discovered

Posted June 13, 2008:

• Life's Raw Materials May Have Come From The Stars, Scientists Confirm

Posted June 4, 2008:

• Hunt For Superearth Planets Underway

Posted May 27, 2008:

• Engineering Researcher Seeks Answers To Asteroid Deflection

Posted May 5, 2008:

• Asteroid Impact 65 Million Years Ago Triggered A Global Hail Of Carbon Beads

Posted May 2, 2008:

• Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions

Posted May 1, 2008:

• Geochemists Challenge Key Theory Regarding Earth's Formation

Posted April 28, 2008:

• Cracks In The Foundation: Fundamental Geological Assumption Relating To Planet Earth Not Quite True

Posted April 24, 2008:

• Shoulder Motor Balks On Opportunity Rover's Robotic Arm

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Geologists Discover New Way Of Estimating Size And Frequency Of Meteorite Impacts

Posted April 10, 2008:

• Hubble Pinpoints Location Of Record-Breaking Cosmic Explosion

Posted April 9, 2008:

• NASA Spacecraft Images Mars Moon In Color And In 3D

Posted April 6, 2008:

• Meteorites Delivered The 'Seeds' Of Earth's Left-Hand Life, Experts Argue

Posted March 30, 2008:

• Huge Meteorite Impact Found In UK -- Britain's Largest

Posted March 27, 2008:

• Kilauea Volcano Erupts Explosively And Vents Noxious Gas

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Stunning Gamma Ray Burst Explosion Detected Halfway Across Universe

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Ancient Asteroids Formed At Solar System's Start

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Mars, Earth And Moon From 'Unique Planetary Nursery'

Posted March 14, 2008:

• Mars Express Reveals The Red Planet's Volcanic Past
• Do Meteors Create Life? Explosion Of New Life Coincided With Hundreds Of Meteorite Impacts

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Life's Building Blocks From Space? Meteorites A Rich Source For Primordial Soup

Posted March 11, 2008:

• How The Peruvian Meteorite Made It To Earth

Posted March 7, 2008:

• Astronomers Capture Rare Video Of Meteor Falling To Earth; Hunt For Meteorite

Posted March 6, 2008:

• Possibly Once-Habitable Ancient Martian Lake Discovered

Posted February 28, 2008:

• Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Did A Mega-Collision Alter Venus?

Posted February 23, 2008:

• Sun Will Vaporize Earth Unless We Can Change Our Orbit

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Unique Martian Formation Reveals Brief Bursts Of Water

Posted February 1, 2008:

• 'The Spider' On Mercury: MESSENGER Spacecraft Streams Back Surprises

Posted January 29, 2008:

• Could An Asteroid Hit Planet Earth, Again?

Posted January 25, 2008:

• Traces Of The Martian Past In The Terby Crater
• Astronomers Prepare To Obtain Close Images Of A Near-Earth Asteroid

Posted January 24, 2008:

• Asteroid To Make Rare Close Flyby Of Earth January 29
• Stardust Comet Dust Resembles Asteroid Materials

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