Hunting for Asteroids
NASA is hunting for Near-Earth Objects, while also working on ways to defend Earth against them.
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The Lessons Learned From a Simulated Asteroid Strike Over Europe
In an alternate reality playing out at this year’s international Planetary Defense Conference, a fictional asteroid crashes over Europe, ‘destroying’ a region about…
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Asteroid 2012 TC4 to Flyby on October 12, 2017
A small asteroid flying past Earth on 12 October will provide scientists with a valuable opportunity to learn more about its orbit…
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Fly Over Ceres With the Dawn Spacecraft
Occator Crater on Ceres is home to the brightest area on the entire dwarf planet. At 57 miles (92 kilometers) wide and…
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