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The nations of the world need to work together to develop a warning and communication system that could mitigate the worst effects of a catastrophic asteroid strike, a new report stresses. Via Panayiotis 
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X Prize's Peter Diamandis, Space Adventures' Eric Anderson, NASA astronaut Tom Jones, and Mars mission manager Chris Lewicki, backed by visionary investors James Cameron, Larry Page, Ross Perot want to develop our Solar System's natural resources. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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A high-technology company announced a risky and monstrously expensive project hoping to use space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids that routinely whiz by Earth. (April 24) Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Vesta, the second-largest object in the asteroid belt, is bright enough to be seen from Earth without a telescope. Now, thanks to NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists can take a much closer look at Vesta. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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Astronomers have proposed a surprisingly simple explanation for magnetic anomalies that have baffled scientists since the mid-1960s -- they are remnants of a massive asteroid.
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Unexpected new findings by geochemists show that some portions of the Earth's mantle (the rocky layer between Earth's metallic core and crust) formed when the planet was much smaller than it is now, and that some of this early-formed mantle...
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An ongoing rocky buffet would explain bright x-ray flares seen around our galaxy's supermassive black hole since 1999, astronomers say.
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A new international consortium has been set up to figure out what Earthlings could do if an asteroid came hurtling towards the planet on a path of imminent destruction.
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Our planet frequently captures small asteroids into orbit, new calculations suggest – we may even be able to bring one back to Earth...
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(AP) -- For 35 years, Zaida Franz has not been able to find her daughter, a girl who dreamed of becoming an astronomer and then disappeared without a trace. Now she at least has an address she can think about - out in space.
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This image, one of the first obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows an area within the Rheasilvia basin in the south polar area of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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A new study suggests that a violent collision with an asteroid might have set the planet Mercury spinning oddly in its orbit.
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Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of ahovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit. Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover – and could be completed by the 2020s.
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A 42 foot space rock (asteroid 2012 JU) flew about 118,000 miles away from the Earth on May 13, 2012 (about half the distance from Earth to the Moon - 238,855 mi.). This time-lapsed and looped video shows the asteroid's orbit as it passes Earth.
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A group of tycoons including Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt have joined the Avatar director James Cameron in a scheme to mine valuable metals and water from asteroids that routinely pass the Earth...
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Flyby of the asteroid Lutetia by the ESA probe Rosetta (July 2010). This animation uses calibrated data and tweened frames, and has been flipped to the correct orientation. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Newly Discovered Space Rock Is Headed Toward Earth, Estimated Time of Arrival 2040 | Popular Science
The UN is figuring out how to ward off a potential collision...
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A new study provides a possible explanation of mysterious X-ray flares detected by the Chandra K-ray Observatory for several years in the region of Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*.
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Recently discovered bus-sized asteroid 2012 BX34 will come closer to Earth than the Moon (36,750 miles away to be exact) on January 27th, 2012. See the orbit the space rock has and will take from January 10th to February 15th.
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When President Obama decided we should aim for the asteroids rather than the moon NASA was sent back to the drawing board. And some of their ideas are more interesting than others.
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A strange 1.1 meter diameter hollow metallic ball appears to have fallen from space, or somewhere, onto Namibia. The pertinent facts:...
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A new study of the way Earth captures asteroids suggests that our planet should have at least one extra moon at any one time. In 2006, the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona noticed that a mysterious body had begun orbiting...
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In a nutshell, Impact: Earth! is an interactive tool that lets anyone calculate the damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it happened to collide with our planet. You can customize the size and speed of the incoming object, and then find out if mankind survives. (Usually it does.) A grainy primer appears below.