Grains Found in Ga. Traced to Asteroid
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A layer of quartz grains found in an east Georgia kaolin mine have been traced to the impact of a giant asteroid that crashed near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago.
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In 1967, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft was hit by a surprising flurry of meteoroids--a shower more intense than any Leonid meteor storm.  Where did the meteoroids come from? It's been a mystery for 40 years.
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Jet Propulsion Lab -- A mountain-sized asteroid made its closest approach to Earth at 6:35 a.m. Pacific Time (9:35 a.m...
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Toutatis, a potato-shaped asteroid about 4.6 km (3 miles) in its longest extent, will pass within 1,550,000 km (963,000 miles) of the Earth&#39;s center on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - reaching its closest approach at 13:35:28 GMT (06:35:28 PDT).
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Washington, D.C. â Eleven months ago, NASAâs Stardust mission touched down in the Utah desert with the first solid comet samples ever retrieved from space.
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An American excavation mission has unearthed eight granaries that are relics from agricultural life in the Neolithic era, the Egyptian culture minister said in a statement Tuesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A pioneering spacecraft that could serve as a blueprint for future interplanetary transport blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on Thursday on a mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
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Tumbling through space like a fumbled football, a peanut-shaped asteroid named 4179 Toutatis is expected to pass within a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of Earth on Wednesday.
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Studies confirm how sunlight alters the motion of bodies, such as asteroids, throughout the Solar System.
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An asteroid named for a Celtic god of war will come as close to Earth this week as it has since 1353. The space rock known as Toutatis will come on Wednesday within 960,000 miles of
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These Hubble Space Telescope images of Vesta and Ceres show two of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. The images are helping astronomers plan for the Dawn spacecraftâs tour of these hefty asteroids.
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Cold, dusty discs of debris have been clearly detected around stars in other planet-harbouring solar systems for the first time by NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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By Chuck Thompson, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep.
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It takes a little while to get the facts straight, but it turns out Giuseppe Piazzi has discovered the first asteroid.
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A recently discovered 1,300 feet long asteroid -- 2004 MN4 --has a slim chance of hitting Earth in the year 2029, according to the statements of NASA.
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There have been a couple of movies recently depicting the impending collision of an asteroid with Earth. It might not be sci-fi anymore.
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The asteroid belt&#39;s largest bodies have drifted virtually alone since their creation about 4.5 billion years ago, but each will soon receive a visit from NASA&#39;s Dawn spacecraft.&nbsp;