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New Hope for Plucky Japanese Asteroid Mission 23 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe's journey back to Earth. In a press release Thursday, officials said they will ...
Japanese engineers have devised a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe's journey back to Earth. 23 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe's journey back to Earth. In a press release Thursday, officials said they will ...
Challenger Center Live Webcast about Comets and Asteroids 23 Nov 2009 17:26 GMT
... about three upcoming NASA robotic missions: Dawn, which will study two of the largest asteroids in our solar system; Stardust NExT, which will make a return visit to comet ...
Cosmic Triple-Play: Asteroid Flyby, Fireball over Utah, Meteor Shower 18 Nov 2009 21:56 GMT
... A fireball over Utah overnight Tuesday was the talk of the state. And an asteroid that could have delivered nearly half the energy of the Hiroshima atom bomb whizzed ...
Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For Good 14 Nov 2009 05:33 GMT
... ASTEROID BELT -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt today, Nov. 13, ...

Dawn Takes up Residence in Asteroid Belt 16 Nov 2009 20:50 GMT
... remained there for 40 days in June of 2008. The lower boundary of the asteroid belt is defined as the furthest Dawn, which was launched in September 2007, is ...
Dawn now permanently in asteroid belt 16 Nov 2009 20:14 GMT
... spacecraft has become the first human-made object to permanently remain in the solar system's asteroid belt. The space agency said Dawn first entered the belt in June 2008, remaining ...
'Frankenstein' fix lets asteroid mission cheat death 20 Nov 2009 19:17 GMT
... asteroid probe is back on track to return to Earth after a clever workaround coaxed ...
WISE Star and Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Topic of NASA Briefing 17 Nov 2009 08:15 GMT
... WISE will scan the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, unveiling hundreds of thousands of asteroids and hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. The briefing will take place in ...
New Blow Against Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Theory, Geologists Find 14 Nov 2009 23:32 GMT
... record because of earthquake or tsunami disturbance that resulted from the impact of the asteroid. "The problem with the tsunami interpretation," says Keller, "is that this sandstone complex was ...

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Possible asteroid lights up western U.S. sky 18 Nov 2009 23:34 GMT
... Witnesses report the night turning into day for a brief moment as the suspected asteroid burned up in the earth's atmosphere. It was so bright, that some street lights ...
Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt - For Good 14 Nov 2009 01:15 GMT
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The end of the world 22 Nov 2009 07:52 GMT
... words could not speed quickly enough across his lips. He told me about planet-killing asteroids and mountain collapses that cause monster tsunamis; he talked of global warming cooking us, ...
Rest easy, Earthlings 15 Nov 2009 18:17 GMT
... Rest easy, Earthlings: Slim impact odds further reduced A nearly 900-foot-wide asteroid that initially triggered fear it would hit Earth now has almost no chance of ...
Not the end of the world 22 Nov 2009 05:46 GMT
... easily digested, however. "The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ...
NASA's Wise Gets Ready to Survey the Whole Sky (w/ Video) 17 Nov 2009 23:51 GMT
... mapping the whole sky in infrared. The mission will unveil hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. Image credit: Ball/NASA/JPL-Caltech (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's ...
NASA's Wise Eye Gets Ready To Survey the Whole Sky 17 Nov 2009 17:10 GMT
... nine months. The mission will uncover hidden cosmic objects, including the coolest stars, dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies. "The eyes of Wise are a vast improvement over ...
NASA's Wise Eye Gets Ready To Survey the Whole Sky (PRN) 17 Nov 2009 17:15 GMT
... nine months. The mission will uncover hidden cosmic objects, including the coolest stars, dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies. "The eyes of Wise are a vast improvement over ...
Wise Gets Ready To Survey Whole Sky 17 Nov 2009 18:17 GMT
... nine months. The mission will uncover hidden cosmic objects, including the coolest stars, dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies. "The eyes of Wise are a vast improvement over ...
NASA's Wise Gets Ready to Survey the Whole Sky 17 Nov 2009 19:13 GMT
... nine months. The mission will uncover hidden cosmic objects, including the coolest stars, dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies. "The eyes of Wise are a vast improvement over ...

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Dung Fungus Prompts Rethinking of Mammoth Extinction 19 Nov 2009 21:59 GMT
... new findings hold, they point away from human causes and could rule out an asteroid impact altogether. By studying the abundance over time of a fungus that lived only ...
Dung Fungus Provides New Evidence in Mammoth Extinction Case 19 Nov 2009 22:17 GMT
... new findings hold, they point away from human causes and could rule out an asteroid impact altogether. By studying the abundance over time of a fungus that lived only ...
Dung Fungus Provides New Evidence in Mammoth Extinction 19 Nov 2009 23:37 GMT
... new findings hold, they point away from human causes and could rule out an asteroid impact altogether. By studying the abundance over time of a fungus that lived only ...
Hayabusa May Come Home After All 21 Nov 2009 00:12 GMT
... plagued with problems throughout the entire mission. Its goal was to land on the asteroid Itokawa and return a sample to the . It orbited the asteroid for three ...
The End'¦..Again. 16 Nov 2009 12:10 GMT
... the fourth planet and two of the moons of the gas giant beyond the asteroid belt. The home planet Erith, third from the yellow star, Sular, is at peace, ...