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Gravity Tractors Could Keep Threatening Asteroids Away If an asteroid were to be discovered tomorrow and proven that it would impact the Earth in less than a week, we wouldn't be able to do much to prevent this from happening. All we can do so far is hope that such events do not occur any time soon. Deflecting asteroids from a possible Earth-threatening trajectory m...	29 July 2008 09:40 GMT

Binary Asteroid to Pass by Earth Yet another reminder of the dangers to which the Earth is subjected every day has been brought to our attention by the Arecibo Radio Observatory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's LINEAR search program which discovered earlier this year an asteroid expected to make a fly-by around Earth sometime tod...	14 July 2008 02:38 GMT

'Killer' Asteroid Estimate Corrections Dismissed by NASA A few days ago, 13 year-old German Nico Marquardt seemed to have embarrassed all NASA scientists when he announced that the odds of asteroid Apophis hitting the Earth in 2036 have been greatly underestimated. The funny thing is that many sources rushed to state that NASA and the ESA confirmed the schoolboy's res...	18 April 2008 06:43 GMT

German 13 Year-Old Corrects NASA Estimates on 'Killer' Asteroid 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 06:36 GMT

Tag an Asteroid and Win 50,000 Bucks! A pretty small prize, one would say, especially considering the implications of a large asteroid hitting the Earth in the near future. We may at least stay calm until the day of 13. April 2036, that is. This is the date when the largest asteroid orbiting through the close vicinity of the Earth may execute a fly-by ar...	27 February 2008 07:01 GMT

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