NASA TO LAUNCH DEEP IMPACT MISSION
Michael A'Hearn, principal investigator of the Deep Impact comet mission speaks with members of the press on June 9, 2005 at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington. The mission is supposed to happen on July 4th, and should give scientists insight into what meteors are made of. Andrew Dantzler, director, Solar System Division, NASA; Rick Grammier, project manager, Deep Impact and Don Yeomans, co-investigator, Deep Impact look on...(UPI Photo/Micheal Kleinfeld)..
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Earth will have a visit by yet another asteroid this weekend but there is no danger of a cosmic collision, NASA says.
A small asteroid made a close fly-by of Earth Friday and is now moving away from our world, NASA said.
U.S. researchers estimate the size of the meteor that caused a giant fireball over California and Nevada was about the size of your average minivan.
Video images of a tumbling asteroid taken by amateur astronomers show it appearing to blink on and off about every 4 minutes, U.S. astronomers say.
An asteroid believed about 500 feet to 2,000 feet in size is being closely monitored by the U.S. space agency as it approaches Earth for a Tuesday fly-by.
Officials Thursday were investigating claims as many as 200 people became ill after a possible meteorite strike in a remote region of Peru.
Fred Whipple, one of the world's most influential astronomers, has died in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 97, the BBC reported Tuesday.
A cadre of space scientists is becoming more adept at sorting out the swarm of asteroids and comets floating through the solar system and has turned its attention to the more-daunting job of doing something about the potentially disastrous collision with
On August 18, asteroid 2002 NY40 will pass within about 300,000 miles of Earth, close enough to be seen through binoculars, but on a course so well-plotted astronomers said the wandering space rock has no chance of hitting our planet this time.
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