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| Asteroid May Hit Mars In Next Month
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| posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007
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Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space
rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30,
scientists said Thursday.
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| Current Near-Earth Asteroid Statistics & Research
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| posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007
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There are between one and two million near-Earth objects (NEOs) --
chunks of space rock whose orbits may pass within 30 million miles of
Earth -- that pose a significant impact threat to the planet. Of the
4,535 NEOs detected and tracked (704 of which are real whoppers), none
are on a definite collision course, but there could be millions more,
many of them potentially lethal, lurking in the cosmos.
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| The First Americans Were Killed By A Comet
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| posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a
comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail
of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere.
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| New NASA Report On Killer Asteroids
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| posted on Friday, April 06, 2007
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According to a new report from the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, some 100,000 asteroids and comets routinely pass
between the Sun and the Earth's orbit. About 20,000 of these orbit
close enough to us that they could one day hit the Earth and destroy a
major city.
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| NASA Can't Pay For Killer Asteroid Hunt
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| posted on Monday, March 12, 2007
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WASHINGTON - NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding
nearly all the asteroids that might pose a devastating hit to Earth,
but there isn't enough money to pay for the task so it won't get done.
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| Asteroid Threat Demands Response
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| posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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Kamchatkans and Venezuelans beware. A 20-million-tonne asteroid could
be heading your way. Californians have even more reason to worry -- the
asteroid is more likely to hit the Pacific Ocean, triggering a tsunami
that could devastate the west coast of North America.
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| A Single Impact Killed The Dinosaurs
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| posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – The dinosaurs, along with the majority of all other
animal species on Earth, went extinct approximately 65 million years
ago. Some scientists have said that the impact of a large meteorite in
the Yucatan Peninsula, in what is today Mexico, caused the mass
extinction, while others argue that there must have been additional
meteorite impacts or other stresses around the same time.
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| NASA Begins Planning To Deal With Asteroid Threat
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| posted on Sunday, November 19, 2006
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It is the stuff of nightmares and, until now, Hollywood thrillers. A
huge asteroid is on a catastrophic collision course with Earth and
mankind is poised to go the way of the dinosaurs. To save the day, Nasa now plans to go where only Bruce Willis has gone
before. The US space agency is drawing up plans to land an astronaut on
an asteroid hurtling through space at more than 30,000 mph. It wants to
know whether humans could master techniques needed to deflect such a
doomsday object when it is eventually identified. The proposals are at
an early stage, and a spacecraft needed just to send an astronaut that
far into space exists only on the drawing board, but they are deadly
serious. A smallish asteroid called Apophis has already been identified
as a possible threat to Earth in 2036.
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