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 Science & Tech  Maria - 57 days ago - news.yahoo.com - A tiny asteroid discovered earlier Monday by an Arizona observatory will hit Earth's atmosphere over Sudan in a few hours but will burn up before it can hit the ground or endanger aircraft, astronomers said.
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 Science & Tech  Kathy - 156 days ago - usatoday.com The centennial anniversary of the last big impact, the 1908 Tunguska blast that rocked Siberia, falls Monday, June 30, bringing with it a reminder of the very slight chance that a hunk of space rock out there might have Earth's number.
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 Science & Tech  Plato - 158 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com A giant crater made by an asteroid or comet explains why Mars is so lopsided, with a basin on one hemisphere and high terrain on the other, three separate teams of scientists said.The impact gouged out a hole 8,500km across and 10,600km long.
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 Science & Tech  - 265 days ago - spacedaily.com Almost a century ago, on June 17 (30), 1908, a massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, in what is now Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, Central Siberia.
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 Science & Tech  Laurel - 310 days ago - space.com Astronomers have obtained the first images of an asteroid on course to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday, showing the space rock is lopsided.
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 Science & Tech Laurel - 310 days ago - news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small asteroid will travel relatively near to Earth next week, giving astronomers a rare opportunity for a close-up look.
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Asteroid to Make Rare Close Flyby of Earth on Tuesday - NASA /JPL NEWS RELEASE
Science & Tech - 312 days ago - spaceflightnow.com Scientists are monitoring the orbit of asteroid 2007 TU24. The asteroid, believed to be between 150 meters (500 feet) and 610 meters (2,000 feet) in size, is expected to fly past Earth on Jan. 29,
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 Science & Tech  Ian - 312 days ago - space.newscientist.com The asteroid, named 2007 TU24, was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, US, on 11 October 2007. Based on its apparent brightness, astronomers estimated that it was between 150 and 600 metres wide,
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 Science & Tech  Suzybell - 312 days ago - foxnews.com An asteroid that's likely as big as several football fields will fly past Earth next week.Astronomers said the space rock will be visible the night of Jan. 29 to amateur astronomers with modest-sized telescopes.Called 2007 TU24, the asteroid was discover
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Asteroid's Chances of Smacking Mars Dip
Science & Tech  Karen - 329 days ago - space.com The space rock, an asteroid called 2007 WD5, is now expected to miss Mars by about 18,641 miles (30,000 km), according a Tuesday report by NASA's Near Earth-Object (NEO) program office.
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 Science & Tech Laurel - 335 days ago - space.com Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday.
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NASA, SETI Scientists to Meet 2008's Most Dazzling Meteor Shower on the Wing
Science & Tech Michael - 336 days ago - networkworld.com SETI Institute and NASA scientists will Thursday take their research instruments and their coffee for a 10 hour continuous flight to map what they say will be the earth's most brilliant meteor shower of 2008.
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 Science & Tech Laurel - 336 days ago - tfot.info This past November, the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona discovered an asteroid receding from the Earth, heading towards Mars with. ...
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 Science & Tech - 340 days ago - time.com Astronomers have good news, better news and some bad news about an asteroid known as 2007 WD5. The good news is that this 164-ft.-wide chunk of speeding space rock, discovered in November in an ongoing search for potential threats to Earth, won't hit our
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Asteroid May Collide With Mars
Science & Tech Ben - 346 days ago - blogmyway.org NASA says an asteroid has a 1-in-75 chance of slamming into Mars come Jan. 30. The impact could create a crater of about a half-mile in diameter. (Dec. 22). Copyright 2007 The Associated Press
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