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NASA to Provide Web Updates on Objects Approaching Earth

NASA to Provide Web Updates on Objects Approaching Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is introducing a new Web site that will provide a centralized resource for information on near-Earth objects - those asteroids and comets that can approach Earth. The "Asteroid ...


World's researchers prepare for a cosmic encounter

World's researchers prepare for a cosmic encounter

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defence Conference is being held in Granada, Spain, on 27-30 April. Among the topics under discussion will be preparations for the ...





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A Beehive of Satellites

Space Image: A Beehive of Satellites

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

The launch of the first artificial satellite by the then Soviet Union in 1957 marked the beginning of the utilization of space for science and commercial activity. During the Cold War, space was a prime area ...


NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft (AP)

NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(AP) -- NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth. The sky-mapping ...


How to deflect asteroids and save the Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 19

You may want to thank David French in advance. Because, in the event that a comet or asteroid comes hurtling toward Earth, he may be the guy responsible for saving the entire planet.


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Report: NASA can't keep up with killer asteroids

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created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 9

(AP) -- NASA is charged with seeking out nearly all the asteroids that threaten Earth but doesn't have the money to do the job, a federal report says.


Naval Research Laboratory's ANDE-2 deployed from Space Shuttle Endeavour

ANDE-2 satellite deployed from Space Shuttle Endeavour

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created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), was deployed from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 30, 2009.


Triple Asteroid System Triples Observers' Interest

Triple Asteroid System Triples Observers' Interest

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system. Asteroid 1994 CC encountered Earth within 2.52 million ...


NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth

NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth

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created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth ...


Follow Rosetta's final Earth boost

Rosetta's final Earth boost

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ESA's comet chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on 13 November to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's European Space Operations ...


Physicists offer foundation for uprooting a hallowed principle of physics

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 30

Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If confirmed, the abnormality ...


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Space debris: Europe to set up monitor

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created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to start monitoring orbital debris within the next few years, an official said Thursday at the close of the largest-ever conference on a worsening space peril.



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