UK plan to track asteroid threat
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UK space scientists and engineers design a mission to investigate a potentially hazardous asteroid.
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Humankind got spied on by a huge space invader on Wednesday. An asteroid named for a Celtic god of war was to come closer to Earth this week than it has since 1353.
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An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.
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An unmanned &quot;tractor spacecraft&quot; could eventually be used to drag an asteroid off course before it slams into Earth with catastrophic consequences, experts have said.
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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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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.
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Welsh MP Lembit Opik calls for the UK government to embrace an action plan to reduce the asteroid threat to Earth.
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The risk that an asteroid capable of wiping out humanity will crash into Earth is minuscule, new calculations suggest, but the chances of a smaller one destroying a city or setting off a catastrophic tsunami remain unclear and may be higher than previous estimates.
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Even as Mount St. Helens threatens to erupt, scientists are planning a network of Global Positioning System receivers to map the volcano&#39;s movement and help predict the likelihood of an eruption.
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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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LONDON -- The British government began tracking radioactive hotspots in London yesterday to trace the poison that killed a former KGB agent, and three people who reported possible symptoms of contamination underwent testing.
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A giant asteroid will make a close brush by Earth Wednesday -- at least close by asteroid standards. The 4.6-kilometre-long Toutatis will come within 1.5 million kilometres of Earth.
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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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This summer, NASA will launch a robotic probe to visit two stange and giant asteroids--one is covered with ice while the other may have been blasted by an ancient supernova.  The tales these asteroids tell may reveal the true beginnings of our solar system.
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This summer, NASA will launch a robotic probe to visit two stange and giant asteroids -- one is covered with ice while the other may have been blasted by an ancient supernova. The tales these asteroids tell may reveal the true beginnings of our solar system.
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We have seen it all in the movies. Asteroids coming towards the earth promising devastation of the kind we have experienced before.
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The chance of a football field-sized asteroid plowing into Mars next month has been increased to 4 percent, scientists said Friday after analyzing archival data.