All posts tagged "Asteroid"
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1.1KScience NewsAsteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Also Set Off Underwater Volcanoes, Study Says
The massive asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs millions of years ago may have ignited a chain of catastrophic volcanic eruptions on...
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968Science NewsAlien Asteroid May Hold Icy Core
The first ever alien object to enter the Solar System may hold interstellar water in it, a study suggests. The asteroid, named...
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1.2KScience NewsAsteroid Passes Close To Earth As NASA, ESA Test Planetary Defense Systems
An asteroid the size of a school bus came perilously close to Earth, which put the global planetary defense systems to the...
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972Science NewsGiant Asteroid Passes Close To Earth
An asteroid the size of a mountain just streaked by Earth on the morning of September 1 – a record-breaking phenomenon that...
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1.3KScience NewsAncient Meteorites Shed Light On Asteroid Mystery
Over ten years ago, scientists were surprised to discover that the most abundant kind of meteorites they had collected on Earth and...
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1.4KScience NewsAsteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Made Drastic Changes On Earth’s Surface
Scientists say they are now able to describe in detail how the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs produced its huge crater –...
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1.8KScience NewsNASA Mission To Collect Billion-Year-Old Asteroid Dust Ready To Launch
A new NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx intends to use an invention inspired by the Solo cup to grab asteroid dust that will...
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2.4KScience NewsSeptember Doomsday Asteroid Debunked By NASA
Refuting a viral fear of asteroids stoked by a recent asteroid awareness meeting of scientists and astronauts, NASA issued a news release...
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2.8KScience NewsWhat Killed The Dinosaurs: Researchers Plan To Drill 5,000 Feet Below The Crater In Mexico To Find Out
UK researchers have studied the Chicxulub crater in Mexico and decided to drill 5,000 feet below the surface of the crater to...
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1.6KScience NewsMeteorite Blasts Nicaragua Capital
A small meteorite narrowly missed the international airport in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, on Saturday night, government officials said, leaving a crater in...
