Massive asteroids in popular meteor shower Taurids pose major threat
Scientists have discovered a new branch of the Taurids meteor stream that could pose a major risk to Earth, with asteroids up to 1,000 feet wide flying past us every …
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The greatest danger asteroids pose to us is not from the impact
If an asteroid hits a major city, only 3 per cent of the casualties will be from the crater it forms. Read more at
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NASA’s Plan to Save Earth From Killer Asteroids | Mashable Docs
A 2013 meteor explosion above Chelyabinsk, Russia injured more than 1,700 people. It was completely unexpected — and it could happen again. Here’s what NASA’s doing to make sure we …
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NASA Spots Five Asteroids That Will Be Flying Awfully Close to Earth in 2017
NASA has spotted five asteroids which will make a close approach to the Earth this year. One of the space rocks will come within 0.15 lunar distances to our planet …
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NASA Asteroids & Comets: Three Years of NEOWISE Data
This animation shows asteroids and comets observed in infrared by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, NEOWISE has discovered 114 …
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What will happen if asteroids hit Earth
NASA tracks more than 10,000 Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in space. Millions of years ago, one of these NEOs hit Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. No person has every been …
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What’s Up for July? Asteroids!
This month you can learn about asteroids, and see Vesta, as the Dawn spacecraft closes in.
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Asteroids – Sixty Symbols
Find out why astronomers no longer use symbols for asteroids. More astronomy and physics at us on at Or on at
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Asteroids – LM Tomorrow
Available on the App Store: Newly updated. Are asteroids the ultimate threat of extinction, or do they provide insight into the origin of life on Earth? Travel to a near-Earth …
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Asteroids and the OSIRIS-REx Mission
Scheduled for launch in 2016, OSIRIS-REx will return the first samples ever taken from a special type of asteroid that scientists believe holds clues to the origin of the solar …
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