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Salta -
As the folk music band "Los Tekis" performed at an outdoor venue, a suspected meteor lit up the night sky early on Sunday in Salta, Argentina. Just as they finished their song, the sky lit up like day.
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Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) said Friday that NASA will likely get $100 million to start the first phase of a project to use a robotic spaceship to capture and tow a small asteroid to a stable orbit around the Moon for research and exploration purposes.
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European and US scientists involved in the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission say they are making progress with a planned mission to learn how to deflect asteroids threatening Earth by crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022.
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A newly discovered asteroid about 330 feet wide will pass close to Earth this weekend astronomers say. Asteroid 2013 ET will pass Earth at a distance of 600,000 miles (960,000 kilometers) on Saturday, March 9.
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A theoretical solution using a coat of paint could prevent a future near-Earth asteroid attack, according to a student whose novel solution won a 2012 ‘Move an Asteroid’ technical paper competition.
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San Francisco -
A whirlwind of chaos spawned by the Russian Meteor hit causes conspiracy theories and rumors to spread worldwide.. One thing is for sure, the sky is falling.
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Chelyabinsk -
A meteor, travelling at a speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second, has crashed into the Ural mountain region of Russia, injuring at least 500 people. A fireball was seen streaking through the sky Friday before the meteor hit land.
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Stargazers worldwide are waiting with eager anticipation for Friday's near-miss flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14. At its nearest approach it is expected to pass 17,200 miles from Earth, inside the ring of geosynchronous satellites.
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As the world awaits a flyby from an asteroid, Russia is dealing with a meteorite strike. BBC Europe is reporting a meteor shower has caused a meteorite to fall to earth and some injuries and damage has been reported.
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From telescopes in Australia, NASA has released the first moving images of the space object to make a near miss of Earth on February 15. In a previous report NASA's and the European Space Agency's images were shown. This event (see link below) is on film.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 17, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 9,500 miles (15,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta. Each pixel in the image corresponds to roughly 0.88 miles (1.4 kilometers).
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