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Astronomers spot rare asteroid break-upWashington (AFP) March 06, 2014 Astronomers said Thursday they have witnessed the distant break-up of an asteroid, a rare event that was not caused by a violent space collision or a close encounter with the Sun. Instead, the asteroid, located some 300 million miles (483 million kilometers) from the Sun, was likely weakened over time by multiple small run-ins with other space objects, said the report in Astrophysical Journal Letters. And now, astronomers are watching asteroid P/2013 R3 come undone as a result of a subtle effec ... read more |
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 Japanese astronaut becomes ISS commander China 'deploys satellites' in search for Malaysia plane Rogozin set to take practical advantage of Russian space industry potential NASA Launches New Research, Seeks the Subtle in Parallel Ways Russia Must Focus on Profits in Space Industry Mini Rocket Models to be Used in a Big Way for SLS Base Heating Test | .. |
 Radar Images of near-Earth Asteroid 2006 DP14 A collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2006 DP14 was generated by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on the night of Feb. 11, 20 ... more | .. |
 Astronomer spots asteroid smashing into Moon A Spanish astronomer on Monday said he had witnessed a fridge-sized asteroid smash into the Moon, in the biggest lunar impact by a space rock ever recorded. ... more | .. |
 Subaru Telescope Detects Rare Form of Nitrogen in Comet ISON A team of astronomers, led by Ph.D. candidate Yoshiharu Shinnaka and Professor Hideyo Kawakita, both from Kyoto Sangyo University, successfully observed the Comet ISON during its bright outburst in ... more | .. |
 Rocks around the clock: asteroids pound tiny star Scientists using CSIRO's Parkes telescope and another telescope in South Africa have found evidence that a tiny star called PSR J0738-4042 is being pounded by asteroids - large lumps of rock from sp ... more |
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 NASA takes major step in hunt for asteroids NASA's mission to reel in an asteroid took an important step forward when the agency recently established a new "rapid response system" intended to pinpoint the most eligible targets for capture. ... more | .. |
 Huge asteroid passes Earth nearly one year after Chelyabinsk meteorite A massive asteroid is scheduled to make its way past Earth Monday night. Scientists advise it will not make contact with our planet, while amateur astronomers will be able to watch its flight online ... more | .. |
 Responding to Potential Asteroid Redirect Mission Targets One year ago, on Feb. 15, 2013, the world was witness to the dangers presented by near-Earth Objects (NEOs) when a relatively small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere, exploding over Chelyabinsk, R ... more | .. |
 A good year to find a comet A team of European astronomers has found a previously unknown comet, detected as a tiny blob of light orbiting our Sun deep in the Solar System. Europe's Teide Observatory Tenerife Asteroid Survey t ... more |
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 Software helps astronomers find faint, tiny comet in deep solar system A team of European astronomers reports software helped them see what the eye could not, a previously unknown comet orbiting the sun deep in the solar system. ... more | .. |
 Russian scientists break ground in new asteriod discovery A new name has appeared in the registry of minor planets. Researchers at the Ussuriysky Astrophysics Observatory of the Far Eastern chapter of the Russian Academy of Scientists have discovered a new ... more | .. |
 The Anatomy of an Asteroid ESO's New Technology Telescope (NTT) has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making exquisitely precise measurements astronomers have ... more | .. |
 Getting ready for asteroids With a mandate from the UN, ESA and other space agencies from around the world are about to establish a high-level group to help coordinate global response should a threatening asteroid ever be foun ... more |
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 Riding a blue-green wake of xenon to Ceres Dawn is continuing its trek through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Leaving behind a blue-green wake of xenon from its ion propulsion system, its sights are set on dwarf planet Cere ... more | .. |
 NASA Posts Final Asteroid Workshop Report In 2013, NASA kicked off the Asteroid Redirect Mission and the Asteroid Grand Challenge, collectively known as the Asteroid Initiative. On June 18, we issued a Request for Information to seek innova ... more | .. |
 Rogue asteroids may be the norm To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiate ... more | .. |
Asteroid Diversity Points to a "Snow Globe" Solar System Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds farther out, all eight planets following orbital paths unchanged since they formed ... more |
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 Rosetta wide awake as check-up continues Following last week's wake-up of the Rosetta comet-chaser, ESA's flight controllers have conducted the first in a series of health checks aimed at assessing how well it came through 31 months of hib ... more | .. |
 Astronomers say 'rogue' asteroids often found where they don't belong "Rogue" asteroids - space rocks with compositions at odds with their position in the solar system - may be the norm, not the exception, U.S. astronomers say. ... more | .. |
 NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Countdown Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe o ... more | .. |
 NEOWISE Celebrates First Month of Operations After Reactivation In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and four comets. Three of th ... more |
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 Rosetta: To Chase a Comet Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visited by spacecraft in an attempt to unl ... more | .. |
Rosetta Spacecraft Waking Up for Final Leg of Comet Landing The first spacecraft to orbit a comet and land a probe on these icy nomads is now waking up after more than two years of slumber, and videos filmed as part of an international competition will help ... more | .. |
 'Sleeping beauty' comet probe awakens from slumber The European probe Rosetta woke up Monday after a 31-month hibernation in a nearly decade-old quest to explore a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. ... more | .. |
 Rosetta, ESA's 'sleeping beauty' wakes up from deep space hibernation Rosetta, ESA's 'sleeping beauty' wakes up from deep space hibernation It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as ESA heard from its dista ... more |
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