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Chasing ‘Oumuamua— Unfortunately Human Technology Isn’t Up to the Task
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This article was written by Eric Berger for Ars Technica. Click here to continue reading the article on ArsTechnica.com A little more than a month ago, an interstellar visitor now…

Solar System’s First Interstellar Visitor Dazzles Scientists
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This article was originally published by NASA. You can continue reading it on the NASA website, here. Now, new data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object…

Will Asteroid Apophis Hit Earth in 2036? NO! And Here Is Why.
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When I woke up this morning my inbox was full. I received two dozen messages from concerned citizens who heard about asteroid Apophis in the news this morning. When I…

How Would You Propose to Survey and Track All NEO of the Size Of Tunguska?
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QUESTION FROM ALASDAIR TAYLOR How would you propose to survey and track all NEO of the size of Tunguska? I mean 25th abs magnitude is faint and I can believe that…

A meteoroid as Seen from the Space Station
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This article was originally written by the European Space Agency. Continue reading via ESA.int, here. A series of night-time photos were taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli on 5 November…

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