News tagged with minor planet
Student's work helps to detect near earth asteroids
(PhysOrg.com) -- An asteroid impact with the earth can really ruin your day: just consider the dinosaurs. Most asteroids, also known as minor planets, orbit the sun beyond the planet Mars and present no danger, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2011 |
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2005 YU55 resembles a collection of rocks hurtling through space
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is the closest, fastest and smallest object so far seen by Herschel. In fact, such observations were not even foreseen due to technical constraints. The asteroid 2005 YU55 is moving on ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Astronomers study unusual asteroid
A space mission will soon visit an unusual asteroid called Vesta that may turn out to not be an asteroid at all, but a minor planet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2011 |
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2012 BX34: Behind the scenes in the discovery of a near Earth asteroid
Several blockbuster movies, television shows and commercials have depicted the discovery of an asteroid heading towards Earth and usually, somehow, impending doom is averted. But how do the discoveries of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth
An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 28, 2012 |
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8-meter-wide asteroid will pass close to Earth today
A small asteroid will pass extremely close to Earth tomorrow (January 27, 2012). Named 2012 BX34, this 11 meter- (36 feet-) wide 8 meter- (26-foot-) space rock (astronomers have updated their estimates of the ...
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Jan 27, 2012 |
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A salt-free primordial soup?
Most scientists who study the origin of life assume that it occurred in the ocean. But a minority view is that ions in seawater may interfere with prebiotic chemistry, making a freshwater environment more ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Tropical sea temperatures influence melting in Antarctica
Accelerated melting of two fast-moving outlet glaciers that drain Antarctic ice into the Amundsen Sea Embayment is likely the result, in part, of an increase in sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, according ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 06, 2011 |
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US honors astronauts for pioneering space flights
The US Congress on Wednesday bestowed its highest civilian honor on four American space pioneers of the 1960s, marking the first time the Congressional Gold Medal has been awarded to astronauts.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Close encounter of the rocky kind
(PhysOrg.com) -- Discovered by a UA astronomer six years ago, a city-block sized space rock will race past the Earth closer than the moon in what will be the closest encounter of an object of this size in ...
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Nov 07, 2011 |
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Forget exoplanets. Let's talk exomoons
It wasn’t that long ago that astronomers began discovering the first planets around other stars. But as the field of exoplanetary astronomy explodes, astronomers have begun looking to the future and considering ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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'Queen's English' not the best
Native English speakers should give up their claim to be the guardians of the purest form of the language and accept that the ways it is used and changed by millions around the world are equally valid.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 02, 2011 |
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NASA says comet Elenin gone and should be forgotten
(PhysOrg.com) -- Comet Elenin is no more.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2011 |
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