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Asteroid naming test for global students
NASA recently opened a competition for students around the world to name an asteroid that NASA is about to fly in 2016. The competition lasts from September 2 to Decembe…
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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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Perspective of the destruction of the earth
No one can accurately predict the future, let alone the time of the earth's destruction. In exterminating hypotheses that are logically deduced under the eyes of astrono…
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Find the oldest Earth's crater
An oldest meteorite, formed on Earth about 3 billion years ago, was discovered in the west of Greenland island. It is said to appear after an asteroid collision of 30km…
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Mission to bring people to asteroids
The latest survey results collected by WISE telescope have identified about 4,700 asteroids capable of threatening the earth, while so far experts have only kept an eye…
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NASA takes people to asteroids farther than the moon
A group of astronauts including Tim Peake, a former British pilot who is currently working for the European Space Agency (ESA), is formally trained for a completely new…
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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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Nearly 5,000 planets are threatening the earth
The orbits of meteorites and planets make them occasionally approach the earth to a level of concern. Until now, scientists have found about 30% of this object. The plan…
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Asteroids explode in California sky
The halo is thought to have been created by a small asteroid that is hitting the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 15 km / s (54,000 km / h), turning it into a blazing fi…
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The Earth suffers from dozens of collisions with asteroids
One of the most popular scientific hypotheses today is that, 65 million years ago, an asteroid about 10 kilometers in diameter had hit the earth causing an extinction fo…
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Life migrates from the earth
For years, scientists have hypothesized that bacteria might have been brought to earth on a comet or meteorite, seeding life today. But the panspermia theory poses the o…
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Two medium asteroids flutter across the Earth
NASA meteorite project scientists said the two small 2012 FP35 and 2012 FS35 meteorites have flown over Earth at very close distances on the evening of March 26 (interna…
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New map of star systems
NASA has announced a new map with more than 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids, many of which have never been known before.
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The magnetic field on the Moon is produced by the ancient meteorite
A recent scientific study said, the phenomenon
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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…