[ad_1] The NASA Dawn spacecraft, orbiting the asteroid Ceres, died quietly, the space agency said Thursday. Dawn missed her scheduled recording on Wednesday. Mission officials concluded that the booster propeller was dry …
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[ad_1] <! – -> The artist's concept of what Phaeton could look like. Image via Heather Roper. Blue asteroids are rare and blue comets are almost unknown. An international team of astronomers …
Read More »[ad_1] NASA has warned that a giant asteroid measuring three times the length of a double-decker bus will make its close approach with earth on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. The asteroid dubbed …
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[ad_1] NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has executed its third Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-3). The trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) thrusters fired in a series of two braking maneuvers designed to slow the spacecraft’s speed …
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[ad_1] Blue asteroids are rare and blue comets are almost unknown. An international team led by Teddy Kareta, PhD student at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona, studied …
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[ad_1] The smiling asteroid-shaped skull that makes an appearance on Halloween in 2015 will be a bit late to deceive or treat this year. The asteroid, officially known as 2015 TB145 asteroid, …
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[ad_1] KNOXVILLE, Tennessee – The Japanese probe Hayabusa2 is preparing to land on the Ryugu asteroid, where it will take a sample of the rock surface of the asteroid that will eventually …
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[ad_1] Copyright of the image BARCROFT PRODUCTIONS / BBC Legend Artwork: The impact has reached the energy equivalent to 10 billion bombs of Hiroshima It's hard to imagine billions of tons of …
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[ad_1] The researchers saw an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon. (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) If the enthusiasm of the researchers announces it, an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon could well escape in more …
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[ad_1] The huge asteroid that swept over the Earth in Chicxulub, modern Mexico, 66 million years ago, was a global catastrophe that surpassed the best of modern science. In a few seconds, …
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