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The start of the Younger Dryas may have coincided with a large comet breaking up in our planet's atmosphere. The event, believed to have taken place some 13,000 years ago, was first proposed years ago, but thus far insufficient data were available to support the idea.
The Younger Dryas, informally known as the... |
6 March 2012
09:31 GMT |
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While in space, astronauts and cargo are at some risk of being struck by various impactors, including space junk or micrometerorites. Now, experts propose the development of a new type of sensors, that would literally listen for the sounds such impacts would make.This would help astronauts on the International Space ... |
3 June 2011
02:13 GMT |
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For the second time in about 10 days, solar physicists discovered that a new comet had met a fiery end in the flames of the Sun. The event happened shortly after a massive solar eruption that took place on the star between May 20-21.
Until less than two weeks ago, no instances of such an event had been detected. ... |
1 June 2011
01:46 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that the thick, hazy atmosphere surrounding Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have been produced by a vast amount of cosmic impacts, that spewed ejecta material into the air.
The thing that puzzles astronomers and planetary scien... |
9 May 2011
02:06 GMT |
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Asteroid impacts helped shape the way the solar system, and indeed our planet, look today, and yet these phenomena are not that well understood. Experts are now moving away from computer models, and are taking studies of such collisions into construction yards.Such a study involved suspending two ball-shaped boulders... |
24 March 2011
10:53 GMT |
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A group of investigators was recently able to show without a doubt that an ancient meteorite impact took place around the Vaal River, in South Africa. Details of the ancient catastrophe were preserved in stones at the affected locations, scientists say.Using grains of the chemical compounds quartz, zircon, and monazi... |
2 December 2010
05:02 GMT |
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A team of experts believes it may have discovered a new impact crater atop Mount Ararat, the biblical mountain on which Noah's Ark is believed to have come to rest. The feature may have been produced millions of years ago. The discovery was made by two physicists that somehow got access to a part of the mountain... |
18 November 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Officials at the Purdue University announce the opening of a new online tool called “Impact: Earth,” which can be accessed by everyone, and that can model the potential consequences of an asteroid or comet hitting our planet. The new website allows for the input of various parameters for each scenario, wh... |
3 November 2010
11:05 GMT |
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The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is best known for its contribution to detecting water on Earth's natural satellite. When it launched in 2009, it shared its delivery system with the LCROSS impactor that later slammed into the south lunar pole, revealing the existence of water-ice in craters at those l... |
28 July 2010
03:41 GMT |
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Not long after the Moon formed around Earth, a giant impactor, most likely a meteorite or large asteroid slammed into its southern hemisphere, creating the most massive crater on the surface of the natural satellite. The South Pole-Aitken basin has been determined to be no less than 1,500 miles in diameter, and has a... |
6 March 2010
05:46 GMT |
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When working in a doctor's office, you would expect to encounter nothing but patients all day, plus the occasional inspections. But a doctor in Virginia got more than he signed up for, when a meteorite came crashing through the roof of the building. Fortunately, according to sources, no one got hit or injured du... |
22 January 2010
05:06 GMT |
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Over the years, as scientists browsed satellite data or took to the field, numerous comet and asteroid impact sites have been discovered on the surface of our small planet. But experts believe that many more may still be out there, unknown to Science. Finding them is very important, because they could provide a windo... |
14 December 2009
14:11 GMT |
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A certain point 580 million kilometers away is these days the rage in astronomical observations. A few days ago, an object impacted the planet Jupiter, as we reported. The event was first discovered by an Australian sky watcher, who telephoned NASA and told them about his observations. The impact, which left the plan... |
25 July 2009
04:33 GMT |
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NASA's Opportunity Rover is finally set to descend into the 230-foot-deep Victoria Crater on Mars to turn the page of the Red Planet called "a geologic history book" after spending the last couple of months making a clockwise trip around the crater's rim, heading for a breach called Duck Bay, said mission ... |
29 June 2007
03:32 GMT |
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