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Create a protective belt around the Earth
Russian scientists are studying a project to create an orbital belt to protect the Earth from dangerous collisions with asteroids.
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Found evidence in the Tunguska case?
A Russian scientist has claimed to have found the first meteorite in a mysterious explosion in Siberia in 1908. The Tunguska event in June 1908 was one of the mysterious…
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Successfully try the device
A infrared sensor device funded by NASA has been successfully tested. It is believed to help NASA enhance the ability to detect and track comets, asteroids ...
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NASA recruited a new
The central tool of the new mission will be the TESS space observatory, abbreviated from the Transit Planet Satellite Satellite, scheduled to orbit in 2017.
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Discovered a $ 5.3 million meteorite in the field
Few doubts, the rock lying between the farm of a Spanish farmer during the past 30 years is the remains of an asteroid that plunges into the earth since ancient times, w…
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Asteroids 'baked' Earth
A collision with an ancient asteroid may have triggered a global fire storm, burning each tree and grass on the surface of our planet.
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NASA admits helplessness against meteors
Officials from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) concede there is nothing to be done if the meteorite on the collision with the Earth within 3 weeks.
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Russia can use nuclear bullets to deal with meteors
A high-ranking Russian official in the space sector said the country could build heavy boosters to bring up nuclear warheads to deal with asteroids, which threaten the e…
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Discover large meteorite in Antarctica
Vinciane Debaille, a geologist of the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, and Belgian and Japanese colleagues have used snowmobiles to find Antarctic meteorites for…
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March 9 an asteroid will
A recent report published by NASA said the 2013 asteroid ET, about 100 meters long, equivalent to a 35-storey building, will fly over the Earth on Saturday, March 9.
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Owl 'compulsive surgery' from space
The asteroid attack of nearly 10 km in diameter left the impact crater as wide as 193km, the third largest in this form on the surface of the globe, and most likely trig…
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Apophis will face Earth in 2068?
99942 Apophis will fly across the Earth in 2029 and 2036, but it will probably crash into the green planet in 2068, RIA Novosti February 25 led the study posted on the w…
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Giant asteroids once fell into Australia
Scientists have discovered an area of up to 200km affected by the collision between the earth and an asteroid with a diameter of 10-20km in Australia. Scientists estim…
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Asteroids are named Wikipedia
The asteroid 274,301, discovered by Ukrainian astronomers on August 25, 2008, has just been named Wikipedia in honor of this open encyclopedia.
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The danger of meteorite explosion is still hovering above human heads
Although studies suggest that it is unlikely that the asteroid carrying the demon Apophis plunges into the earth, it looks at the dimples on the surface of the moon, the…