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Asteroid 2013 TX68
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Scientists from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena CA announced in February that a thirty meter sized near-Earth asteroid, tagged 2013 TX68, would pass…

New NASA Images Shed Light on Ceres’ Bright Spots
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For months, scientists have been puzzled by mysterious bright spots dotting the surface of Ceres, a dwarf planet drifting in the asteroid belt. Now, new images snapped by NASA’s Dawn…

Unveiling Ceres
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https://youtu.be/AtLdprhvtVE NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed marvelous sights on dwarf planet Ceres during its first year in orbit, including the mysterious bright spots in Occator Crater. See full-resolution images and…

Protecting Earth from Asteroids – with Rusty Schweickart and Neil deGrasse Tyson
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https://soundcloud.com/startalk/protecting-earth-from-asteroids It has been said jokingly that the dinosaurs might still be around if they had a space program. Humanity has numerous space programs, from NASA to ESA to JAXA…

Small asteroid detected 4 days after passing as close as satellites
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On March 15, 2016, astronomers detected a space rock – now designated as asteroid 2016 EF195 – using the PanSTARRS 1 telescope at Hawaii. Surprisingly, as they analyzed its trajectory,…

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