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NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into DevelopmentGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 17, 2013 NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) passed a confirmation review Wednesday called Key Decision Point (KDP)-C. NASA officials reviewed a series of detailed project assessments and authorized the spacecraft's continuation into the development phase. OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 201 ... read more |
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 Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on Mars Ariane Flight VA214's launch vehicle marks a preparation milestone Eutelsat 3D launch a success Stanford professor and former NASA official explains how NASA might revive the Kepler space telescope | .. |
 Asteroid Could Fly 8,600 Km From Earth in 2026 A celestial body 20 meters in diameter will pass dangerously close to Earth's surface in 13 years, according to new data published on Thursday. The flyby of 2013 GM3 on April 14, 2026, may bri ... more | .. |
 Astronomer: Asteroid could make close flyby in 2026 An Italian astronomer says new data suggest an asteroid 65 feet in diameter could pass dangerously close to Earth's surface in 13 years. ... more | .. |
 Newly Discovered Comet Imaged on Way to Inner Solar System Arrival Scientists eagerly await the arrival of a recently discovered, highly active comet that will skim 730,000 miles above the Sun's surface on Nov. 28 and has the potential to be readily visible from Ea ... more | .. |
 UCLA space scientists find way to monitor elusive collisions in space Many collisions occur between asteroids and other objects in our solar system, but scientists are not always able to detect or track these impacts from Earth. The "rogue debris" created by such coll ... more |
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 Herschel links water in Jupiter's stratosphere to 1994 comet impact Astronomers have finally found direct proof that almost all water present in Jupiter's stratosphere was delivered by comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which struck the planet in 1994. The result is based on n ... more | .. |
 Bechtel Partners with Planetary Resources for Space Initiative Planetary Resources, Inc. has announced that Bechtel has joined their core group of investors and will be a collaborative partner in helping Planetary Resources achieve its long-term mission, which ... more | .. |
 NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test. The test assessed performance of the Near Earth Object Camera (N ... more | .. |
 How to Target an Asteroid Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space na ... more |
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 Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's orbit. Based ... more | .. |
 Beer Cans For Deep Space The recent announcement of a NASA plan to drag an asteroid into lunar orbit with a robot spacecraft, then stage a crewed astronaut expedition to explore it, has stunned many boffins. The plan is hig ... more | .. |
 UA Helps Lead U.S. Exploration of Asteroids Scientists at the University of Arizona welcome President Barack Obama's NASA budget proposal, rolled out this week, and specifically its focus on gaining a better understanding of asteroids that co ... more | .. |
 NASA's Asteroid Initiative Benefits From Rich History NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and expl ... more |
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The Space Cowboys are Back You can't make this stuff up! The latest idea from NASA sounds like a "space western." In this case one cowboy, played by a robotic spacecraft, is sent to lasso a small asteroid and bring it back to ... more | .. |
 More Treasures from Asteroids The recent announcement of a potential NASA plan to robotically capture an asteroid, transport it to lunar orbit and use it as a target for a human expedition is amazing. Admittedly, it sounds ... more | .. |
NASA wants to tow an asteroid to the moon: senator NASA wants to grab a small asteroid and tow it into orbit around the moon, as part of a long-range plan towards establishing permanent manned outposts in space, according to a US senator. ... more | .. |
 Collision Course? A Comet Heads for Mars Over the years, the spacefaring nations of Earth have sent dozens of probes and rovers to explore Mars. Today there are three active satellites circling the red planet while two rovers, Opportunity ... more |
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 NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON Astronomers from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) and Lowell Observatory have used NASA's Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which may become one of the most dazzl ... more | .. |
Dawn remains in silent pursuit of dwarf planet Ceres In the depths of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, far from Earth, far even from any human-made object, Dawn remains in silent pursuit of dwarf planet Ceres. It has been more than six ... more | .. |
 NASA Scientists Find Moon, Asteroids Share History NASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth's moon has more in common than previously thought with large asteroids roaming our solar system. Scientists from NASA's Lunar Scie ... more | .. |
 Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET A sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was obtained on March 10, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was ... more |
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 Sunset Comet March 15, 2013: For a comet, visiting the sun is risky business. Fierce solar heat vaporizes gases long frozen in the fragile nucleus, breaking up some comets and completely destroying others. ... more | .. |
 Long Awaited, Comet PanSTARRS Now Glows in the Twilight Look west around the middle of twilight on a clear evening this week, and with a little luck - and maybe binoculars - you might spot a one-time-only visitor newly arrived from very deep space. ... more | .. |
Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March Comets visible to the naked eye are a rare delicacy in the celestial smorgasbord of objects in the nighttime sky. Scientists estimate that the opportunity to see one of these icy dirtballs advertisi ... more | .. |
Earth to get another asteroid viewing Earth will have a visit by yet another asteroid this weekend but there is no danger of a cosmic collision, NASA says. ... more |
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