asteroids
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This Backwards-Orbiting Asteroid Has Been Flirting With Death For A Million Years
Most asteroids orbit the Sun in a counterclockwise fashion, but a newly-discovered object nicknamed Bee-Zed goes against the grain, spinning around the Solar System the opposite way. Not only that, it frequently ventures within Jupiter’s orbital space — putting it on a potential collision course with the gas giant and its 6000 co-orbiting asteroids.
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NASA’s Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got An Amazing Side-Quest
Right now, OSIRIS-REx is one of the busiest spacecrafts in the solar system. OSIRIS-REx, which blasted off in September 2016, has been getting ready to rendezvous with the object of its mission — an asteroid called Bennu — in order to bring back samples to Earth. But before the spacecraft links up with Bennu in…
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The Year In Encouraging News
This year sucked, didn’t it?
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New TV Drama About The Imminent Arrival Of A Killer Asteroid Feels Very Timely
Unfortunately, the CBS show — from executive producer Alex Kurtzman, whose TV credits include Fringe, Limitless, Sleepy Hollow, and Alias; he also directed the Tom Cruise Mummy reboot that’s out next year — is titled Salvation, suggesting it might not end with the asteroid smashing Earth into a billion pieces, as we all might currently…