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  Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Is Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship

  May 16, 2013 — On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. ... > full story
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  New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year

  May 15, 2013 — Taking before and after pictures of the Martian terrain, researchers have identified nearly 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results provide scientists with a better yardstick to ... > full story
• Climate
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  Fall Warming on Antarctic Peninsula Driven by Tropically Forced Circulation

  May 15, 2013 — New research shows that, in recent decades, fall is the only period of extensive warming over the entire Antarctic Peninsula, and it is mostly from atmospheric circulation patterns originating in the ... > full story
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  First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013

  May 14, 2013 — On May 13, 2013, the sun emitted an X2.8-class flare, peaking at 12:05 p.m. EDT. This is the the strongest X-class flare of 2013 so far, surpassing in strength the X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 ... > full story

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  Moon and Earth Have Common Water Source

  May 9, 2013 — New research finds that water inside the moon's mantle comes from the same source as water on Earth. The Moon is thought to have formed after a giant impact to a still-forming Earth 4.5 million years ... > full story

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  • Water on Moon, Earth Came from Same Primitive Meteorites
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  Ice-Free Arctic May Be in Our Future, International Researchers Say

  May 9, 2013 — Analyses of the longest continental sediment core ever collected in the Arctic provide "absolutely new knowledge" of Arctic climate from 2.2 to 3.6 million years ago. The research has major ... > full story
• Stars
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  Dead Stars 'Polluted' With Planetary Debris: Signs of Earth-Like Planets Found

  May 9, 2013 — Astronomers have found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white dwarf stars are being polluted by debris from ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Researchers Find a Way to Make Steel Without Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

  May 8, 2013 — Steelmaking, a major emitter of climate-altering gases, could be transformed by a new ... > full story
• Volcanoes
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  Landsat Thermal Sensor Lights Up from Volcano's Heat

  May 6, 2013 — As the Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite flew over Indonesia's Flores Sea April 29, it captured an image of Paluweh volcano spewing ash into the air. The satellite's Operational Land Imager ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova

  May 6, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate wisps of gas that make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants ... > full story

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