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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…
Rare Pallasite Meteorite Found in Missouri
[/caption] Meteorite hunter Karl Aston finds meteorites not by digging in the ground, but by placing ads in local newspapers.…
Every Way Devised to Deflect an Asteroid
With asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close by Earth yesterday, this rather unsettlingly near flyby has many people wondering if we…
Images, Video from Around the World of Asteroid 2005 YU55’s Close Pass
[/caption] A 400-meter-wide asteroid created a lot of "buzz" as it buzzed by Earth, with its closest approach on November…
Live Webcast as Keck Telescope Attempts Images of Asteroid 2005 YU55
Astronomers from the Keck Telescope in Hawaii will be trying to observe Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it flies away from…
First Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55’s Flyby
Here's a short movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55, created from data collected from the 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at…
Just In: NASA’s Latest Image of Asteroid 2005 YU55
[/caption] NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 as it…