Action plan for killer asteroids
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A draft UN treaty to tackle any future giant asteroids heading for Earth is to be drawn up this year.
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A Nasa spacecraft begins an eight-year mission to explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System.
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Earth is about to gets its closest brush this century with a massive asteroid, a hurtling space rock astronomers say is big enough to cause global devastation if it were to collide with the planet.
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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The planning and operations that must occur twice each day -- between the time when &quot;yester-sol&#39;s&quot; data reach Earth until commands for the next sol&#39;s activities are sent off to the rovers -- is becoming more efficient.
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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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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 last week, but he added that
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New proposals to defend Earth from cataclysmic impacts range from a tugboat-like spaceship to arrays of giant scopes that can better scan the skies, scientists said today.
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A recently rediscovered 400-meter asteroid is predicted to pass near Earth on April 13, 2029, meriting the highest rating yet for a hazardous near-Earth object.
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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next multi-billion-dollar
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Across our galaxy, the formation of planetary systems is typically a &quot;big mess&quot; -- a violent, slam-bang process in which dust balls grow into mountainous asteroids that hurtle about like pinballs, repeatedly smashing each other to bits, scientists
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When I was an astronomy student at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, pioneer asteroid hunters Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and her husband Kees van Houten were about to retire, after very fruitful careers. Their legacy was the discovery of over 2000 asteroids, of which some 1800 yielded orbits, in collaboration with Prof. Tom Gehrels of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona. ...
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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 250m-wide asteroid known as 2007 TU24 is set for a relatively close pass of Earth.
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A team of astronomers steps up a project which one day could preserve the Earth from annihilation.
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An asteroid expected to fly past Earth in 2029 will be visible to the naked eye, scientists projected Thursday.