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March 26, 2016

CSU Student, Professor Confirm Five New Asteroid Orbits

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Using the Skynet robotic telescope network, professor of astrophysics Andy Puckett and planetary geology major Austin Caughey of Columbus State University’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences, have helped identify…

March 25, 2016

See NASA’s First-Ever Asteroid Sample-Collecting Spacecraft in Colorado

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NASA is inviting 25 social media users to apply for a chance to attend a one-day media event to learn about the first-ever NASA mission to travel to an asteroid, retrieve…

March 24, 2016

Two Comets Just Made Historic Near-Earth Flybys

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A pair of comets zoomed past Earth over the past few days, and their historic one-two flyby punch was caught on video. A telescope in Chile operated by the online Slooh…

March 24, 2016

Painting an Asteroid to Save Earth

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https://youtu.be/C8tgv9Zl3B4 As an object travels through space it absorbs heat from the sun and emits heat energy in the form of photons. These photons push the asteroid in a certain…

March 24, 2016

Tracking asteroids

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This article appeared in Boulder Weekly which is not affiliated with Asteroid Day. In December 2004, astronomers in Arizona discovered an asteroid the size of a cruise ship that appeared…