space
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It Looks Like There’s A Second, Bigger Impact Crater Under Greenland’s Ice
Scientists have spotted a potential asteroid crater in Greenland just 183km away from another one announced a few months ago. But the newest crater is even larger — it would be the 22nd largest on Earth.
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Fireball Over Cuba Exploded With The Force Of 1,400 Tons Of TNT, NASA Says
Last week, local media reports indicated that a meteorite hit the Cuban town of Viñales after soaring across the Florida Keys, with residents reporting hearing a massive sonic boom as well as seeing a trail in the sky. The event was apparently picked up by the National Weather Service Key West’s radar some 7,924.80m off…
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NASA Pulls Astronaut Eric Boe From First Boeing Starliner Crewed Flight, Mike Fincke Will Fly Instead
NASA has pulled astronaut Eric Boe, who was scheduled as a crew member for the first manned test flight of Boeing’s Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew capsule in the second half of 2019, as he “is unable to fly due to medical reasons, the space agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Spektr-R, Russia’s Only Space Radio Telescope, Stops Responding To Commands
Russia’s only orbiting space radio telescope, Spektr-R (RadioAstron), has stopped responding to the spacecraft’s control staff, the BBC reported Saturday, though Astro Space Centre chief Nikolai Kardashev told the BBC that it is still transmitting scientific data.