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Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat
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This article was published by the University of Colorado Boulder which is not affiliated with Asteroid Day. Comets and asteroids as large as West Virginia smacking into Mars some 4…

Geologists to drill into heart of dinosaur-killing impact
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This article was written by Alexandra Witze for Nature.com. Neither are affiliated with Asteroid Day. Asteroid Day Expert Christian Koeberl is one of the principal investigators of the ICDP part of the…

A New Impact on Jupiter Captured by Amateur Astronomers
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On Sunday, March 20th, turmoil began online on web pages and popular social media sites among amateur astronomers. A few days ago reports of an impact on Jupiter began to circulate.…

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…

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…

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