Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids
All about Meteorites Comets Asteroids: Meteorite: Stony, iron, stony-iron metal meteoroid or asteroid metal, Cryovolcanism Shape Dwarf Planet Ceres, Asteroid’s Characteristics, planetary shake-up, asteroid Itokawa, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, Meteorite bombardment. Asteroid asteroids facts size belt types, answers to questions like: How are asteroids formed? Where are asteroids found? What are asteroids made of? Comets Interesting facts, famous names of comets, halley’s comet, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud frozen ammonia, methane or water, dirty snowballs and questions like: What are comets made of? Where do comets come from? How big are comets?
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Mar 15, 2014After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system commonly dubbed "Planet X." -
Mar 15, 2014Scientists have found evidence that ancient water movement in a martian meteorite. The finding is reviving a debate over life on Mars. -
Mar 14, 2014Researchers say alien worlds may be even more habitable than Earth-like planets, what they say might be called "superhabitable" worlds. -
Mar 5, 2014NASA meteor and fireball experts Dr. Bill Cooke, Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw will answer questions on Reddit.com beginning at 1 p.m. CST Thursday, March 6, on the Reddit “IAmA” forum. -
Mar 4, 2014Red Dwarfs make up about three quarters of all stars in the Universe. A new study indicates that virtually all of them might have orbiting planets. -
Mar 2, 2014Astronomers have used a new technique to identify water in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. The planet is a 'hot Jupiter' that orbits a nearby star named Tau Boötis. -
Feb 28, 2014While observing the bright outburst from Comet ISON in November 2013, astronomers detected a relatively rare isotope of Nitrogen. The findings are helping astrobiologists understand the composition of the solar nebula from which the planets of our solar system formed. -
Feb 26, 2014NASA's Kepler mission has announced the discovery of 715 new planets, bringing the count of confirmed exoplanets to nearly 1,700. -
Feb 25, 2014A meteorite with the mass of a small car crashed into the Moon last September. -
Feb 24, 2014The European Space Agency has given the official go-ahead for the planet-hunting and asteroseismology space mission PLATO.
