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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,…

Inside NASA’s Planetary Defense Office
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https://soundcloud.com/scifri/inside-nasas-planetary-defense-office There are thousands of asteroids and comets that orbit the sun, traveling in the same cosmic neighborhood as the Earth. But what happens if one of these space rocks…

The five greatest balls of fire over Earth
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We live on a moving target in a cosmic firing range. Each day, the Earth is bombarded by about a hundred tonnes of space debris. It may sound alarming, but…

Gorman students tap entrepreneurial spirit to develop disaster relief idea
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The following article appeared in Review Journal on January 22, 2016. Written by Jan Hogan. Excerpt: More than 1,400 student entrepreneurs set out to develop ideas that would have a global…

Asteroids IV – The New Asteroid “Bible” Reviewed
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In the world of planetary science, the University of Arizona Press has a long heritage of publishing incredibly valuable academic volumes on a wide array of topics. The publisher’s “Space…

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