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NASA's Dawn Fills out its Ceres Dance CardPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 05, 2013 It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance card. Dawn has been cruising toward Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, since September 2012. That's when it departed from its first dance partner, Vesta. Ceres presents an icy - possibly watery - counterpoint to the dry Vesta, where Dawn spent almost 14 months. Vesta and Ceres are two of the l ... read more |
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 Mysteries of Earth's radiation belts uncovered by NASA twin spacecraft Arianespace's role as a partner for the US satellite industry Astronomers find strange planet orbiting where there shouldn't be one Odds of alien life 'very high,' House panel hears Controllers prepare for spacecraft's rendezvous with protoplanet Ceres Industry Associations Seek to Change the Global Conversation About Satellite | .. |
 Rock Comet Sprouts a Tail Astronomers have long been puzzled by a certain meteor shower. Every year in mid-December the sky fills with flashes of light shooting out of the constellation Gemini. The Geminids are fast, b ... more | .. |
 Comet ISON vanishes as it circles the sun Comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the surface of the sun Thursday and vanished as it circled the fiery surface, astronomers said. ... more | .. |
 Comet ISON vs. the Solar Storm In 2007, astronomers were amazed when a solar storm hit Comet Encke. NASA STEREO spacecraft watched as a CME (coronal mass ejection) struck the comet head on and ripped off its tail. The same thing ... more | .. |
 Will comet ISON survive its near brush with the Sun? US astrophysicists are split over what will happen when the comet ISON passes near the sun Thursday, but a majority think it will break apart. ... more |
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 NASA's Solar Observing Fleet to Watch Comet ISON's Journey around the Sun It began in the Oort cloud, almost a light year away. It has traveled for over a million years. It has almost reached the star that has pulled it steadily forward for so long. On Thanksgiving ... more | .. |
 Physicist's journey reveals smaller asteroids could cause bigger problems Once in a lifetime, a physicist may get a chance to test his theories and simulations in a real-life event that changes the course of his scientific life. But rarely does that opportunity literally ... more | .. |
 NASA, Planetary Resources Sign Agreement to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement i ... more | .. |
 Asteroids should be colonized or used as transport to planets The potential colonization of asteroids is one of the most promising areas of space exploration - even more so than mining them for resources, Russian scientists say. The creation of closed-cycle ec ... more |
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 Comet ISON, hype aside, is an intriguing cosmic visitor Comet of the century. Super comet. Hyped by the media and the subject of a couple of drum-beating TV documentaries, a dusty cosmic snowball named Comet ISON has a lot to live up to. ... more | .. |
 Scientists find that Mars, not Earth, shakes up some near-Earth asteroids For nearly as long as astronomers have been able to observe asteroids, a question has gone unanswered: Why do the surfaces of most asteroids appear redder than meteorites - the remnants of asteroids ... more | .. |
 MicroObservatory Catches Comet ISON Hopes are high for Comet ISON, which has the potential to become the most spectacular comet seen in years. ISON is speeding through the inner solar system at about 120,000 miles per hour, on its way ... more | .. |
Comet ISON: What's Next? Comet ISON is now inside the orbit of Earth as it plunges headlong toward the sun for a fiery close encounter on Nov. 28th. Although the comet is not yet as bright as many forecasters predicted, the ... more |
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 When is a comet not a comet? Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a unique and baffling object in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler or badminton shuttlecock. While this o ... more | .. |
 'Freakish' asteroid discovered, resembles rotating lawn sprinkler Astronomers have discovered a "weird and freakish object" resembling a rotating lawn sprinkler in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The find, reported online in the Nov. 7 issue of the Ast ... more | .. |
 It's Complicated: Dawn Spurs Rewrite of Vesta's Story Just when scientists thought they had a tidy theory for how the giant asteroid Vesta formed, a new paper from NASA's Dawn mission suggests the history is more complicated. If Vesta's formation ... more | .. |
 Surprising Recent Discoveries of Three Large Near-Earth Objects Two surprisingly large Near-Earth Asteroids have been discovered in just the last week or so, as well as a third moderately large asteroid which surprisingly has also gone undetected until now, even ... more |
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 Astronomers Establish the Strength of High-Inclination Asteroids A team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the University of Hyogo used the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) mounted on the Subaru Telescope to observe fain ... more | .. |
 Comet ISON Roars Through Leo In the early morning of Oct. 25 (6:45 a.m. EDT), NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., used a 14" telescope to capture this image of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which is brightening a ... more | .. |
 BRRISON Lifts Off To Study Comet ISON The Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON) payload lifted off at 8:10 p.m. EDT from Ft. Sumner, N.M., on a mission that primarily includes the sun-grazing Comet ISON as one of its observation tar ... more | .. |
 Six-tailed asteroid stuns scientists A strange asteroid that appears to have multiple rotating tails has been spotted with NASA's Hubble telescope between Mars and Jupiter, astronomers said Thursday. ... more |
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 Dawn Enjoying Smooth Travels Deep In The Main Asteroid Belt Deep in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Dawn is continuing its smooth, silent flight toward dwarf planet Ceres. Far behind it now is the giant protoplanet Vesta, which the spacecraf ... more | .. |
 Space cannon ready: Japan to shoot asteroid for samples in 2014 mission A unique space cannon developed for Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has successfully test-fired on Earth in preparation for a 2014 mission. During its upcoming journey into space, the cannon will blas ... more | .. |
 Another hazardous asteroid to dart close to Earth in 2065 Russian astronomers have discovered another potentially dangerous asteroid that is estimated to dart past Earth in 2065 at a distance of only 7,000km. The Asteroid, initially named MASDA1 has ... more | .. |
 Is the 'Christmas Comet' cracking up? An incoming comet that skygazers had hoped would provide one of the greatest celestial shows of the century, could be a fizzle. ... more |
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