No big bang: Asteroid will miss Mars
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The possibility of a collision between Mars and an approaching asteroid has been effectively ruled out, according to scientists watching the space rock.
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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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Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday.
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Astronomers have found plenty of double, or binary asteroids. Triples are known to exist, too (the first triple was found in 2005).
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It's a mission to Mars &#151; without leaving Moscow. Russian scientists have finished fashioning a crucial section of a mock spacecraft that will simulate a voyage to the Red Planet, an official at the Moscow institute leading the project said Wednesday.
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[World News]: Washington, Dec 10 : A National Academies&#39; panel has ruled out sending a robotic mission to mend the Hubble Space Telescope, citing fears that a robot might crash into Hubble instead of fixing it.
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Scientists expect to detect a lot more asteroid threats with new technology, but it's still not clear what anyone will do about them. Randy Dotinga reports from the AAAS meeting in San Francisco.
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Toutatis, a mountain-sized asteroid, will today come the closest to the Earth since at least the 12th century, giving scientists an opportunity to gather data about it, NASA said on its Web site.
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Summary - (Dec 29, 2004) Astronomers have now ruled out the possibility that Asteroid 2004 MN4 will strike the Earth in April 2029.
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In the next few weeks the twin Mars rovers will be out of touch with Earth when the Sun lines up to block communications. Daily operations will be taken over by longer-term instructions without radio links between the two planets.
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An asteroid with a wild orbit is about to zoom by our planet. Plus: Solving the mystery of the Pioneer anomaly could take decades.... A biologist finds a chunk of space shuttle Columbia. By Amit Asaravala.
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An asteroid the size of a large storage shed came within 4,100 miles of Earth this spring, making it the closest near miss ever recorded, US astronomers said this week.
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NASA this weekend is set to launch a spacecraft that will journey to the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, a mission that involves a rendezvous with two of the solar system's largest asteroids.
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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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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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A MASSIVE asteroid heading for Earth has a 1-in-300 chance of smashing into the planet in 2029, say boffins. The space rock is believed to be more than 1,300ft long and was only rediscovered
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By Mike Swain EXPERTS have called for a pounds 150 million &quot;Armageddon-style&quot; space mission to deflect an asteroid which may be heading for Earth. Astronomers believe the asteroid Apophis has a one in 45,000 chance of hitting the planet on April 13, 2036.