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The Japanese space agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa space probe is a sample-return mission sent to collect data on the small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. The probe was launched on May 9, 2003, met up with the object, and then landed on it due to a glitch. It managed to take off however, and is currently head... |
21 November 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Today, November 14, the NASA Dawn spacecraft entered the inner asteroid belt of our solar system for the last time. The probe is scheduled to visit the dwarf planet Ceres, and also the large asteroid Vesta, and to collect scientific readings on as many of the objects' properties as possible. The asteroid belt li... |
14 November 2009
06:50 GMT |
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The Hayabusa space mission, which literally translates into peregrine falcon, is a flight of the Japanese space agency (JAXA), which aimed at landing and retrieving soil samples from the near-Earth asteroid (NEO) 25143 Itokawa. The goal of the mission was to study the potentially dangerous object thoroughly, and then... |
11 November 2009
01:43 GMT |
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On Friday, the American space agency released a full report, in which it gave details about the asteroid that exploded high in the planet's atmosphere on October 8, in the skies over Indonesia. According to NASA, the asteroid blew up with the strength of 50,000 tons of TNT, an explosion about three times more po... |
27 October 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Establishing what killed the dinosaurs is not an easy thing to do, and many ideas and proposals exist to explain why, some 65 million years ago, more than half of the planet's species, dinosaurs included, vanished from the face of it. A large portion of the scientific community believes that a comet impact, at t... |
19 October 2009
02:46 GMT |
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The recently discovered 2 Pallas is an asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter, and previous investigations have determined that it is a bit too impressive in size to be a simple rock. Indeed, the first high-resolution images to come to astronomers seem to demonstrate that the celestial body is a protoplanet, as sp... |
13 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that hovercraft are usually used for navigating swamps and shallow waters, a few modifications are, apparently, enough to turn them into potent scientific tools. Researchers Yngve Kristofferson and John Hall are planning to use a modified Griffon Hovercraft 2000TD to analyze a patch of Arctic sea... |
13 October 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Since the International Astronomical Union (IAU) started changing the definitions of what planets, asteroids, and dwarf planets looked like, the faith of many large, cosmic objects in the solar system has remained undecided. One such example is the giant rock 2 Pallas, which is, in fact, a protoplanet – a Moon-... |
9 October 2009
06:36 GMT |
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One of the most famous asteroids was, for the scientific community, a space rock known as 2008 TC3, which was among the first to be scientifically observed as it entered the Earth's atmosphere, and burned down on descent. It was first spotted in 2008, and tracked until there was nothing left of it. Its surface a... |
8 October 2009
03:58 GMT |
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The asteroid Apophis is one of the most feared and investigated pieces of space rocks in the skies at this point, because astronomers calculated in 2004 that it might be possible for it to hit the Earth in the near future, around 2036. Because the asteroid has twice the size of a football field, a collision with it w... |
8 October 2009
02:11 GMT |
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In their own time, ninjas were perfect at hiding themselves in the shadows, and at navigating the darkness flawlessly, away from any light. However, in modern time, they would be easily discovered by a soldier wearing infrared goggles, as ScienceDaily accurately points out. In an attempt to translate this reasoning t... |
22 September 2009
19:01 GMT |
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An asteroid impact would be so devastating to our planet, that the survival of life itself on it would be jeopardized. Although, as far as we know now, the threat of that happening in the short term is fairly small, British experts from the Stevenage space company EADS Atrium are currently working on a new spacecraft... |
31 August 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Questions related to how the solar system appeared some 4.7 billion years ago have been around since the first people started using their brains for more than capturing their next meal. Science has only recently been able to provide some preliminary answers to this type of questions, although numerous ones still rema... |
21 August 2009
10:53 GMT |
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Only a couple of months ago did astronomers manage to discover a new member of the triple-asteroid class, when they realized that the Near-Earth Object (NEO) known as 1994 CC actually was made up of three pieces. In addition to the central rock, which is the largest of them all, two other bodies, with much smaller di... |
10 August 2009
15:21 GMT |
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The area of our solar system between Mars and Jupiter is known for its many asteroids, and for harboring some of the most peculiar planetary formations, such as the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta, all targets of NASA's New Dawn mission. However, back in 1996, astronomers observed a very weird object i... |
5 August 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Scientists from CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship, led by researcher Dr. Stephen Barnes, have finally been able to put a timescale on the intricate convection processes that take place deep inside our planet, when they have determined how platinum is generated throughout the core. The convection processes inside the... |
1 August 2009
03:31 GMT |
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The recent collision that scarred the face of Jupiter, and generated a cloud of debris comparable in size to a decent part of our planet, has again prompted astronomers to wonder what are the chances of our corner of the solar system being hit by a rogue object as well. The impact has reminded everyone that we are li... |
28 July 2009
10:52 GMT |
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The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and includes some of the oldest rocky formations in our star system. According to a new paper released by experts at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), it may be that some of the oldest asteroids in there were not formed around the Sun, but in ... |
21 July 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Growing evidence that has been accumulated over the past few years seems to sink the asteroid explanation for the disappearance of the dinosaurs more and more underground. Indeed, according to the latest data, it would appear that either a multitude of factors, including a meteorite impact, or a single event – ... |
5 May 2009
05:59 GMT |
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At a recent conference, entitled “Near-Earth Objects: Risks, Responses and Opportunities-Legal Aspects,” experts around the world accurately pinpointed some of the most important factors that would, in the event of an imminent asteroid collision, make any efforts of stopping it fruitless. The experts, inc... |
30 April 2009
03:59 GMT |
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New archaeological data that have emerged following digs in New Mexico and Colorado seem to infirm the hypothesis that states that the catastrophic chain of events that triggered the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinct event killed off all dinosaur species on Earth, alongside some 70 percent of all other animals and fo... |
29 April 2009
10:59 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a growing number of researchers around the world have argued that the “U” and “V”-shaped structures – also known as chevrons – that can be seen on some coastal lines are the result of megatsunamis, caused by asteroids or comets impacting the surface of the ... |
29 April 2009
06:49 GMT |
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According to a new set of scientific investigations carried out at the site of the Chicxulub crater, in the northern Yucatan Peninsula, New Mexico, the asteroid that hit our planet more than 65 million years ago was not the reason for the extinction of dinosaurs and about 65 percent of all other species on Earth. The... |
27 April 2009
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Our solar system was formed approximately six billion years ago, from what new pieces of evidence suggest was a well-blended “soup,” made up from the appropriate amounts of gas and dust, cobbled together by the forces of countless exploding stars around. The new theory came from researchers studying meteo... |
17 April 2009
06:33 GMT |
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North Carolina State University (NCSU) doctoral candidate in aerospace engineering David French is the person the entire planet will be indebted to in the event that an asteroid makes its way on a collision course with Earth. The expert has devised a new way of ensuring that asteroids that could destroy all life on o... |
17 April 2009
06:09 GMT |
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The STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) mission is the third one in the American space agency's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP), meant to provide experts with a better view of the interactions that occur between Earth and the Sun. Currently, the two identical crafts that make up the mission a... |
10 April 2009
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Over the years, we've heard numerous theories and hypotheses as to how the dinosaurs went extinct, and what caused the global event responsible for it. We've been thought to believe a comet or an asteroid is more than capable of wiping out all life on Earth, but a new research seems to contradict that. That... |
18 February 2009
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A French-Italian collaboration has yielded one of the most important astronomical tools in the recent years, namely a method of detecting and thoroughly measuring asteroids as small as 15 kilometers in diameter, via the use of a technique called interferometry. It can only be applied in the case of the European South... |
4 February 2009
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The debate on what the lunar core currently looks like is still pretty intense at the moment, although a growing set of arguments seems to attract more and more approval. According to a new paper by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studied several rock samples brought back from the Moon du... |
30 January 2009
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The Moon might have, at some point, been facing us with its “dark side,” a new astronomical theory points out. French researchers at the Paris Institute of Earth Physics have analyzed the disposition of dozens of crater on the lunar surface, and have concluded that the oldest ones are simply not positione... |
22 January 2009
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The couple of meteorites was found in Antarctica during the 2007/2008 field season and constitutes a premiere for the scientific community – they are the first rocks from the solar system to have andesite on them, the heavy rock that forms the tectonic plates beneath our feet. Thus far, researchers believed tha... |
8 January 2009
06:09 GMT |
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The menace of getting struck by an asteroid or a comet has been one of the largest threats that humans have had to live with for countless centuries. Every time people hear that a new celestial body has been discovered, they immediately ask themselves “will it hit us?” This fear comes from the knowledge t... |
7 January 2009
08:55 GMT |
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Unlike most of the individual celestial bodies in the universe, which tend to take the shapes of spheres (the geometrical object with minimum surface area in relation to volume), asteroids come practically in all the possible shapes and sizes, although why this happens remained largely unknown until now. By studying ... |
3 July 2008
11:34 GMT |
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From time to time, brief streaks of light may appear, moving rapidly across the night sky and disappearing just as quickly. We generally call these luminous phenomena 'shooting stars'; however, they have nothing in common with stars, except maybe a slight resemblance. In fact, shooting stars are meteoroids ... |
10 April 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Asteroids has been ported to multiple systems, including many of Atari's systems (Atari 2600, 7800, Atari Lynx) and many others. The 2600 port was the first game to utilize a bank-switched cartridge, doubling available ROM space. A port was in development for the 5200 and advertised as a launch title but never ... |
28 December 2007
03:28 GMT |
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They said it couldn't be done, but they were wrong: a new and improved ASTEROIDS that is just as addictive as the original. It has been converted into a 3D space shooter with tons of features, like mind-blowing 3D graphics, innovative cutscenes, and intense special effects.Another improvement over the original i... |
27 December 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Just a couple of weeks ago, THQ ruled the Xbox LIVE Arcade domain with titles like Elements of Destruction and SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam! This week, however brings Atari to the scene with two fresh arcade titles: Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe. Everything you need to know about the pair, and more details... |
29 November 2007
05:41 GMT |
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Among the strategies regarding the possibility of preventing a catastrophic event, such as Earth colliding with a large asteroid or comet, we can find early detection, asteroid deflection or possibly the destruction of the object intersecting Earth's orbit. Some of these precautions could rise more problems than... |
17 November 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Several movies have been made during the years depicting the potential catastrophic consequences of an asteroid or a comet intersecting Earth's orbit, and smashing onto its surface, or potential deflection strategies to avoid such a scenario.There are a lot of NEOs or Near Earth Objects, in the planet's orb... |
13 November 2007
03:01 GMT |
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Glu has finally launched its "Asteroids" game, with a slight delay, as the game was set for an August release. The concept behind it has been available for a long time now, as it is built after the model of one of the oldest arcade games out there, with the same name.Glu has taken this concept and reshaped it in orde... |
5 September 2007
06:17 GMT |
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Good things never die and so is the case with the classic "asteroids" arcade game. The old concept has been taken by Glu and revived in the shape of a mobile game, perfectly adapted to be played in the new environment."Asteroids" has been first released on Atari in 1979. A long time has passed since then, but the ide... |
31 July 2007
05:34 GMT |
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Remember the movie Armageddon, where a group of roughneck deep-core drillers are sent by NASA to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and they actually land on it to place a nuclear charge?Well, this idea may not be so fictional after all, since NASA is considering the possibility of a astronauts cre... |
31 July 2007
03:32 GMT |
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