News tagged with asteroid belt
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You're beautiful, Vesta
When UCLA's Christopher T. Russell looks at the images of the protoplanet Vesta produced by NASA's Dawn mission, he talks about beauty as much as he talks about science.
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May 10, 2012 |
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Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta's asteroid family occurred more recently than thought
A team of researchers led by a NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) member based at Southwest Research Institute has discovered evidence that the giant impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta was created ...
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May 10, 2012 |
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Tiny 'spherules' reveal details about Earth's asteroid impacts
(Phys.org) -- Researchers are learning details about asteroid impacts going back to the Earth's early history by using a new method for extracting precise information from tiny "spherules" embedded in layers ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Dawn gets extra time to explore Vesta
(Phys.org) -- NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt. ...
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Finding ET may require giant robotic leap
(Phys.org) -- Autonomous, self-replicating robots -- exobots -- are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn State engineer, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Ames celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pioneer 10
Launched on March 2,1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Famed as the most remote object ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Vesta likely cold and dark enough for ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for ...
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Jan 25, 2012 |
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Stolen New Mexico meteorite worth $20K-$40K found
(AP) -- A meteorite that landed in Russia in the 1940s and was recently stolen from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque has been located.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2012 |
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NASA considers sending a telescope to outer solar system
Light pollution in our inner solar system, from both the nearby glow of the Sun and the hazy zodiacal glow from dust ground up in the asteroid belt, has long stymied cosmologists looking for a clearer take ...
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Dec 20, 2011 |
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Dawn spacecraft spirals down to lowest orbit
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta today, beginning a new phase of science observations. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Lutetia: A rare survivor from the birth of the Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- New observations indicate that the asteroid Lutetia is a leftover fragment of the same original material that formed the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Astronomers have combined data from ESA’s ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send more autonomous ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Meteorites from 2008 TC3 still giving up their secrets
It was an unprecedented event: On October 6, 2008, asteroid 2008 TC3 was spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey Telescope in Arizona. Plotting its trajectory, astronomers knew the 80-ton rock was heading for a ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Up close, asteroid seen to be chunk of would-be planet
A rare opportunity to observe an asteroid at close quarters has unveiled a remarkable rock that seems to be a precursor of a planet, astronomers reported on Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2011 |
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NASA's Dawn science team presents early science results
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are sharing with other scientists and the public their early information about the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta. The findings were presented ...
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Oct 13, 2011 |
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