Big asteroid will eclipse bright star Thursday
Skywatchers, get ready to see a rare vanishing act—and don't blink.
Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2014
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Astronomers witness mysterious, never-before-seen disintegration of asteroid
Astronomers have witnessed for the first time the breakup of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. The discovery is published online March 6 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Astronomy
Mar 6, 2014
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Orbital motions of over 100,000 asteroids visualized
Who knew asteroids could be so beautiful and mesmerizing? In 2008, a group of astronomers led by Alex Parker did a study of the size distribution of asteroid families using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Asteroid ...
Space Exploration
Feb 24, 2014
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Rock from heavens is a scientists' delight
A year ago on Saturday, inhabitants of the Russian city of Chelyabinsk looked skyward, some frozen in fear that a nuclear war had begun.
Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2014
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'Rogue' asteroids may be the norm
To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies of core, ...
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2014
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NASA instruments on Rosetta comet spacecraft begin activation countdown
(Phys.org) —Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on its nucleus ...
Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2014
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Telescope spies water plumes on dwarf planet Ceres
(Phys.org) —Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres.
Astronomy
Jan 22, 2014
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Some planet-like Kuiper belt objects don't play "nice"
The Kuiper belt—the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice—hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System ...
Astronomy
Jan 17, 2014
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Undergraduates discover rare eclipsing double asteroid
Students in a University of Maryland undergraduate astronomy class have made a rare discovery that wowed professional astronomers: a previously unstudied asteroid is actually a pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse ...
Space Exploration
Jan 7, 2014
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Europe launches billion-dollar Milky Way telescope (Update)
The European Space Agency on Thursday launched an advanced telescope designed to detect a billion stars and provide the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way and our place in it.
Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2013
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