asteroids
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The Orbits Of 1400 Asteroids NASA Says Could Smash The Earth
In case you didn’t have enough to worry about, NASA says there are over 1400 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) orbiting our sun. If it makes you feel any better, this visualisation of their orbits is kinda pretty. The beauty of impending destruction.
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Here’s Your Chance To Become One Of The First Asteroid Prospectors
It was just over a year ago, back in April 2012, that we first learned the intentions of a company known as Planetary Resources: asteroid mining. As in going into space, finding an asteroid that’s not-too-far from Earth, and mining it for precious minerals and/or water which could be used as space-fuel for other missions.…
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Scientists Figure Out Where That Russian Meteor Came From
On February 15, a meteor shook Russia as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere above the Urals. Now, scientists believe they know where in the universe it came from.
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Near-Earth Asteroids Don’t Look So Scary In This Australian Time-Lapse
Most of us got a little distracted from uneventful passing of near-Earth asteroid DA14 after that unrelated meteorite decided to slam into Russia. Photographer Colin Legg keep his eyes — and camera — on DA14 though, and put together that makes it seem like an insignificant little dot.