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Name That Asteroid
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
09/06/12 |
| Summary: NASA has announced an asteroid naming contest for students. The winner will name an asteroid from which the upcoming OSIRIS-REx mission will return samples to Earth. |
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Prepares for Trek to Ceres
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
09/02/12 |
| Summary: NASA's Dawn spacecraft is preparing to leave the giant asteroid Vesta and start its two-and-a-half-year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres. |
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RATS on an Asteroid
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
08/22/12 |
| Summary: Scientists are now conducting a simulated mission to a near-Earth asteroid at the Johnson Space Center in Texas. |
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Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
08/14/12 |
| Summary: New research has shown that 'meteor smoke' may play a role in the formation of noctilucent clouds on Earth. |
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Extraterrestrial Origin of Quasicrystals
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
08/10/12 |
| Summary: An expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals has provided convincing evidence that they arrived on Earth from outer space. |
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Bruce Willis Couldn't Save Us From Asteroid Doom
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
08/08/12 |
| Summary: A new study has shown that the method famously used to save Earth from a devastating asteroid impact in the movie Armageddon would not work in real life. |
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Two Comet Puzzles Solved
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
07/28/12 |
| Summary: For the first time, scientists have modeled the trajectories of particles in the protoplanetary disk the formed the Solar System. The results have shed new light on how icy comets may have formed. |
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How Life Turned Left
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
07/27/12 |
| Summary: Scientists studying meteorite fragments have found evidence that liquid water inside an asteroid could be the reason that the amino acids found in meteorites show a strong preference for left-handed versus right-handed orientations. |
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Ancient Meteorites Reveal Early Solar System
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
07/24/12 |
| Summary: By studying particularly old meteorites called diogenites, scientists have revealed new information about the Solar System's earliest chemical processing. |
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