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Asteroid 800,000km2 fly near the Earth
The asteroid named 4 Vesta or Vesta is large and is bright enough to be observable from Earth despite being 170 million km away, Metro reported yesterday.
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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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Dawn's new mission mission
The US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said the probe Dawn was ready for the second mission, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit and study the dwarf planet Ceres…
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Vesta is the newborn planet
The new discovery shows that Vesta is not an asteroid but is a newborn planet exactly from Ancient times, but not undergoing accretion and evolution to join the ranks of…
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Asteroid Vesta 'very similar to the Earth
Vesta - one of the largest asteroids in the solar system with a diameter of nearly 530 km - has many characteristics similar to rocky planets like Earth, discovered by a…
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Little planet with huge mountains
American astronomers believe that the planet 'Vesta has the second highest mountain in the solar system, higher than anything on Earth, according to UPI news agency.
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NASA explores the abandoned planet Vesta
It seems that there is no existence in space, but Vesta's first images are clearly visible in front of us.
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Revealing mysteries about the Solar System
An unmanned scientific probe from the US Space Agency (NASA) recently went into Vesta's meteorite orbit, to discover the secrets of the formation of the Solar System.
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Planetary mystery Vesta
The first images of the asteroid vesta sent from the space probe Dawn were announced by the US Aviation Agency (NASA) on August 1.
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The NASA spacecraft first explored asteroids
On July 16, NASA's Dawn (Dawn) spacecraft arrived in Vesta, a 330-mile (531km) asteroid with an gravity equal to 0.022 times that of Earth's gravity.
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NASA is about to launch the Dawn probe
On September 23, the US Air and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the Dawn probe would be launched on Thursday, September 27, to carry out an eight-year mission…
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Images of two asteroids Ceres and Vesta sent by Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope has sent images of Ceres dwarf planets and Vesta asteroids, the two largest bodies in the asteroid belt, the area between Mars and Jupiter.
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The meteor moment falls from the sky
The meteor falls into the Andes (Bolivia), the dawn dyed the two fresh water near Kaliningrad (Russia), ... is among the most beautiful cosmic photos this week according…
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Video: Compare the size of the big mountains in the Solar System
Rheasilvia Mons on the asteroid Vesta is the highest mountain in the Solar System, 2.5 times higher than Mount Everest on Earth.
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Students build micro-houses with 3D printing technology in just 1 day
Although it is quite small in size, it is theoretically possible to live inside.