Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth Wednesday
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The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that professional and backyard astronomers are watching closely.
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A 30-pound chunk sliced off one of the most famous meteorites in the world, the Willamette meteorite, will be auctioned on Oct. 28.
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Today the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft makes a fly-by of Saturn&#39;s largest moon Titan - the closest ever performed. At the time of the closest approach, which is scheduled for 18:44 CEST, the spacecraft
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p2pnet.net OT News:- There&#39;s a 1-in-45 chance that Asteroid 2004 MN4, discovered in June and spotted again last week, will collide with the Earth on April 13, 2029.
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There&#39;s a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA (news - web sites
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Astronomers spotted an asteroid this week after it had flown past Earth on a course that took it so close to the planet it was below the orbits of some satellites.
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Astronomers are hoping for a spectacular high-impact collision next month, as asteroid 2007 WD5 zooms toward Mars
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The asteroid Toutatis last flew close by Earth in 1992 and 1996, but it has not come as close to us as it will this year since 1353. On Wednesday morning, scientists and skywatchers alike will be able to witness its passage within only four Earth-moon distances.
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2029, April 13 an Asteroid named 2004 MNH of around 400 meters is predicted to pass near Earth, according to a recent discovery. The Asteroid orbits the sun once every 324 days.
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Launch date pencilled in NASA has confirmed the launch date for Dawn, its mission to the asteroid belt. The space agency is aiming for a launch window that opens at 07:25 (EDT) on 26 September, and closes again 29 minutes later.â¦
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A fine display of shooting stars is underway and peaks overnight Wednesday into early Thursday morning. Astronomers expect the 2004 Perseid meteor shower to be one of the best versions of the annual event in several years.
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MUMBAI: The earth will have a close shave with one of the largest known potentially hazardous asteroids called &#39;Toutatis&#39; on Wednesday, Nehru Planetarium senior scientist Bharat Adur said.
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At the world's largest radio telescope, astronomers searching for asteroids on a collision course with Earth are bracing for a more worldly threat: The steepest budget cuts and first layoffs since the observatory opened in 1963.
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and possibly help future scientists determine how to keep such space rocks from colliding with Earth. impactor on July 4, 2005, and the comet&#39;s rocky part will hit it at a speed of 23,800 miles an hour (10.
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PASADENA, Calif. NASA scientists have now ruled out the possibility that a recently discovered asteroid could hit Earth 25 years from now.
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The Dawn spacecraft, which launches Wednesday, will be the first vehicle to visit one celestial body -- an asteroid -- and then power on to another. And the ion-powered craft needs only a small amount of fuel for its seven-year trip.
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LOS ANGELES - There&#39;s a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday, but he added that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers