Study: Earth shares its orbit with tiny asteroid
(AP) -- Like a poodle on a leash, a tiny asteroid runs ahead of Earth on the planet's yearlong strolls around the sun, scientists report.
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News tagged with space rock
New basalt type discovered beneath the ocean
A new type of rock created during large and exceptionally hot volcanic eruptions has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2021
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NASA Mars rover begins collecting rock in search of alien life
NASA's Perseverance rover has begun drilling into the surface of Mars and will collect rock samples to be picked up by future missions for analysis by scientists on Earth.
Planetary Sciences
Aug 6, 2021
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13-year-old New Mexico boy using metal detector finds 2-pound meteorite
As the director of the University of New Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics, Carl Agee gets tons of calls, packages and emails from people claiming to have had the rare experience of actually finding a meteorite.
Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2012
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Meteorite provides record of asteroids 'spitting out' pebbles
In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be shooting off swarms of ...
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2022
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Five reasons to forget Mars for now and return to the moon
Hopes of colonising Mars rest on the premise that we could terraform the red planet, making it habitable for humans with a breathable atmosphere and clement temperatures. However, a recent study cast doubt on the idea, concluding ...
Space Exploration
Aug 20, 2018
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Speed demon asteroid sprints safely past Earth
Earth-approaching asteroid 2014 RC ripped pass Earth today, got its orbit refashioned by our planet's gravity and now bids us adieu. I thought you'd like to see how fast this ~60-foot-wide (20-meter) space rock moved across ...
Space Exploration
Sep 8, 2014
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Christmas Eve asteroid to cruise past harmlessly: astronomers
After a comet for Halloween, another Earthly holiday will be marked by a visit from a celestial body—this time a large asteroid zipping past on Christmas Eve, astronomers said Thursday.
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2015
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Experiments show disproportionately large number of big boulders on asteroids likely due to Brazil-nut effect
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers led by Soko Matsumura of Dundee University in Scotland has found evidence that appears to explain the inordinately large numbers of big boulders found on the surface of asteroids. In their ...
NASA's DART spacecraft crashes into asteroid in defense test
A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 27, 2022
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