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New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source
1 month, 2 weeks ago

New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source

Raw Story  

The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. The papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual asteroids. NASA/McREL One family of asteroids The two new studies place the sources of ordinary chondrite types into specific asteroid families …

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This fall NASA is all about asteroids. What we could learn from these three missions
1 year, 2 months ago

This fall NASA is all about asteroids. What we could learn from these three missions

LA Times  

An illustration of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft near the surface of a metal-rich asteroid that scientists say is similar to the building blocks of rocky planets such as Earth. The completion of the sample’s 1.2-billion-mile trip to Earth is part of a trio of missions in a season that Lori Glaze, NASA’s chief of planetary science, has called “asteroid autumn.” Long …

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Pallas, the second asteroid to be discovered
2 years, 8 months ago

Pallas, the second asteroid to be discovered

The Hindu  

When we learn about the solar system, we are introduced to a class of objects called asteroids. While this much is common knowledge these days, the existence of this asteroid belt wasn't even known a little over 200 years back. Named after the Greek goddess of wisdom Pallas Athena, 2 Pallas can even be considered the first asteroid to be …

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NASA catches asteroid fever with new missions to space rocks
3 years, 2 months ago

NASA catches asteroid fever with new missions to space rocks

LA Times  

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, along with its housing, awaits its launch at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit — and even bash — some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks. There’s nothing better for understanding how our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, said …

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Can We Divert Asteroids and Save Earth from a Fatal Collision? This Lab Thinks So
4 years ago

Can We Divert Asteroids and Save Earth from a Fatal Collision? This Lab Thinks So

News 18  

The threat of a massive asteroid crashing into Earth some time in future and wiping out civilisation as we know it may sound like a premonition of impending doom suited only for a Will Smith apocalypse movie, but the potential of such an incident in the distant future is very much a reality. While space agencies including NASA have been …

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Asteroids That Crashed on Our Moon Could Help Explain the Alien Life on Venus
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroids That Crashed on Our Moon Could Help Explain the Alien Life on Venus

News 18  

With 38 million kilometres of wide, vacuum space between them, one wouldn’t assume the moon and Venus to ever exchange their surface contents. However, Samuel Cabot and Gregory Laughlin from Yale University suggest that there might be Venusian material present on the surface of the moon. Therefore, to study Venus from a distance, analysing the rocks on the moon could …

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