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Holiday Greetings from an Alien Snowman on Vesta
[/caption] Celebrate the winter holiday season in the company of an ‘Alien Snowman’ on the asteroid Vesta, someone we didn’t…
Earth’s Other Moons
[/caption] In the fall of 2006, observers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona found an object orbiting the Earth.…
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Dawn swoops to lowest orbit around Vesta – Unveiling Spectacular Alien World
[/caption] NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Orbiter successfully spiraled down today to the closest orbit the probe will ever achieve around the…
Coming Attraction: Geminid Meteor Shower 2011
[/caption] It's the finale of this year’s meteor showers: The Geminids will start appearing on Dec. 7 and should reach…
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Rainbow of Colors Reveal Asteroid Vesta as More Like a Planet
[/caption] The giant Asteroid Vesta is among the most colorful bodies in our entire solar system and it appears to…
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Vrooming over Vivid Vestan Vistas in Vibrant 3 D – Video
[/caption] It’s time to put on your 3-D glasses and go soaring all over the giant asteroid Vesta - thanks…
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NASA Planetary Science Trio Honored as ‘Best of What’s New’ in 2011- Curiosity/Dawn/MESSENGER
[/caption] A trio of NASA’s Planetary Science mission’s - Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Dawn and MESSENGER - has been honored…
Student Aids In Tracking Down Near Earth Asteroids
[/caption] It's one of the scariest scenarios that could face Earth. Can you imagine an asteroid impact? Even if it…
Asteroid Lutetia… A Piece Of Earth?
[/caption] According to data received from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, ESO’s New Technology Telescope, and NASA telescopes, strange asteroid Lutetia could…
Swift Satellite Captures Asteroid 2005 YU55’s Tumbling Flyby
If you want to photograph something in space, what better way than to have a spacecraft take the picture? The…