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German 13 Year-Old Corrects NASA Estimates on 'Killer' Asteroid |
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A new asteroid has reached the top of the Earth-threat list and was assigned the yellow code - a rare event. However, there is no reason to panic as the chances of an actual hit are still very small.The asteroid, named 2004 VD17, was rated 2 on the Torino scale, which means it deserves the attention of astronomers. B... |
1 March 2006
08:08 GMT |
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An asteroid capable of delivering an amount of energy equivalent to all the world's nuclear weapons may hit the Earth in less than a century from now. The additional observations made by astronomers instead of downgrading the asteroid, as it was hoped, had increased the chances of the strike to "a bit less than ... |
3 March 2006
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Should we rely by 2036 on Bruce Willis' deep-core drilling skills or should we take a more scientific approach to the asteroid 99942 Apophis? By 2036, people on Earth could see the Armageddon movie turned into reality. British space engineers have already unveiled designs for the development of a satellite that ... |
21 September 2007
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The Sun had a central position in the religion of the ancient Egyptians. First, it was represented as the golden scarab, Hepri, symbolizing the becoming. Then, the hieroglyph of Sun, the proper god Ra (Re), appeared, as a circle with a point in the middle. A first rank god, Ra personified the Sun as source of vital f... |
27 March 2008
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2004 MN4, or most popularly known as asteroid 99942 Apophis, is a near Earth asteroid discovered in December 2004. Apophis measures about 400 meters in diameter and upon its discovery, it was given a chance of 2.7 percent that it will hit our planet in 2029. On 19 October 2006, NASA estimated that Apophis had a chang... |
16 April 2008
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