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Water on moon, Earth came from same primitive meteoritesCleveland OH (SPX) May 13, 2013 The water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, researchers from Brown and Case Western Reserve universities and Carnegie Institution of Washington have found. Evidence discovered within samples of moon dust returned by lunar crews of Apollo 15 and 17 dispels the theory that comets delivered the molecules. The discovery's telltale sign is found in the ratio of an iso ... 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 | .. |
 Comet ISON Meteor Shower April 19, 2013: Anticipation is building as Comet ISON plunges into the inner solar system for a close encounter with the sun in November 2013. Blasted at point-blank range by solar radiation, the s ... more | .. |
 Chicago museum displays fragments of meteor that exploded over Russia Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History says it has obtained 234 pieces of the meteorite that slammed into Russia's Urals region in February. ... more | .. |
 Dartmouth researchers say a comet killed the dinosaurs In a geological moment about 66 million years ago, something killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on Earth. Only those dinosaurs related to birds appea ... more | .. |
 CU study provides new evidence ancient asteroid caused global firestorm on Earth A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned ever ... more |
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 Fires After The Asteroid Impact Probably Caused The K-Pg Extinction About 66 million years ago a mountain-sized asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan in Mexico at exactly the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction. Evidence for the asteroid impact co ... more | .. |
 Meteor storm shaped early solar system Movement of the solar system's giant outer planets created a massive meteor storm that rocked the inner solar system 3.9 billion years ago, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Russian meteor million of years old The meteor that exploded over Russia last month probably broke off an asteroid and collided with another space body millions of years ago, a scientist says. ... more | .. |
 Stanford Professor Wants to Find Asteroids That Threaten Earth On Saturday, an asteroid the size of one and a half football fields flew within 240,000 miles of Earth. If the space rock had hit land, it would have leveled an area the size of San Francisco Bay. I ... more |
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 Southampton scientist investigates Russian meteor Dr Hugh Lewis, Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, has analysed the recent extraordinary Russian meteor event using the "NEOImpactor" tool, which was developed by researchers from the University and ... more | .. |
Russia mulls beacons and the bomb to thwart asteroids Russian officials on Tuesday proposed ideas ranging from planting beacon transmitters on asteroids to megaton-sized nuclear strikes to avert the threat from meteor collisions with the Earth. ... more | .. |
Waves Generated by Russian Meteor Recorded Crossing the US A network of seismographic stations recorded spectacular signals from the blast waves of the meteor that landed near Chelyabinsk, Russia, as the waves crossed the United States. The National S ... more | .. |
 Iowa Meteorite Crater Confirmed Recent airborne geophysical surveys near Decorah, Iowa are providing an unprecedented look at a 470- million-year-old meteorite crater concealed beneath bedrock and sediments. The aerial surve ... more |
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 Paintballs to deflect killer-asteroids In the wake of last month's meteorite explosion in Russia's Chelyabinsk, it has become increasingly clear that, if humanity is not to follow the dinosaurs into oblivion, it has to find a way to defl ... more | .. |
 Scientists at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Discover 18kg Antarctic Meteorite A team of scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica have recently discovered a meteorite weighing 18kg embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest such meteorite found in the reg ... more | .. |
Ancient meteorite impact in Iowa studied Airborne surveys are providing an unprecedented look at a 470-million-year-old meteorite crater in Iowa concealed by bedrock and sediment, geologists say. ... more | .. |
 Additional Details on the Large Fireball Event over Russia on Feb. 15, 2013 The large fireball (technically, a "superbolide") observed on the morning of February 15, 2013 in the skies near Chelyabinsk, Russia, was caused by a relatively small asteroid approximately 17 to 20 ... more |
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 Russian meteor misidentified by most Most of the inhabitants of the Russian city under an exploding meteor failed to identify it for what it was, a poll indicated. ... more | .. |
 Apophis May Strike Earth in 2068 The 325-meter (1,066-foot) asteroid 99942 Apophis, that will safely fly by the Earth in 2029 and 2036, may strike the planet in 2068, according to an article published on the NASA website. The ... more | .. |
 What Exploded over Russia? When the sun rose over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, Feb. 15th, many residents of nearby Chelyabinsk already knew that a space rock was coming. Later that day, an asteroid named 2012 DA14 would ... more | .. |
Origin of Russian meteor identified Scientists say they have reconstructed the path of the meteor that exploded over Russia Feb. 15 and identified its likely origin within our solar system. ... more |
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Russia calls for united meteor defense The world should unite to establish a defense system against space objects that threaten Earth, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says. ... more | .. |
 One-Kilo Meteorite Fragment Found Scientists from Russia's Urals Federal University have discovered a meteorite fragment weighing more than one kilogram (2.2 lbs), the largest found so far from the meteorite strike that hit the Ural ... more | .. |
Russian Meteorite Clean-Up 'Two-Thirds Complete' Almost 10,000 windows were mended and 1,500 psychological consultations provided as part of the meteorite hail recovery effort in Russia's Urals, the country's Emergency Situations Ministry said on ... more | .. |
Time for Europe to beef up asteroid vigilance: ESA Europe must strengthen its watch for dangerous space rocks, the head of the European Space Agency's asteroid surveillance programme said Thursday, a week after a meteor struck Russia in a blinding fireball. ... more |
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