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Asteroid 2012 DA14, discovered early this year by the LaSagra Observatory in Spain, will pass inside the geosynchronous satellite ring about 35,800 km above the equator on Feb. 15, 2013. Astronomers say the asteroid may hit a communications satellite.
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A company known as Planetary Resources, which is being backed by multiple billionaires including James Cameron, is hoping to find asteroids in space and mine them for materials which are running low on earth.
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Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in the solar system may in fact be a planet. The NASA spacecraft dubbed Dawn has gotten up close and personal with Vesta's surface, and its findings have urged scientists to want it reclassified.
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Scientists are predicting that the asteroid 2012 DA14 has a small chance of colliding with Earth in eleven months. Watch the skies in February 2013!
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NASA has identified a near-Earth object (NEO), an asteroid 460 feet (140 meter) wide, that may hit the Earth in 2040. Asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, is now considered "high risk" and could be in a catastrophic collision course with Earth.
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A team of astronomers at the University of Helsinki in Finland, headed by Mikael Granvik, have run computer simulations determining that Earth has more than one moon...kind of. Thousands of tiny asteroids, pulled into Earth's orbit, have been found.
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NASA’s six-frame radar movie of asteroid 2005 YU55 was generated from NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar on November 7, 2011
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If you are an astronomy enthusiast hoping to catch a glimpse of the asteroid 2005 YU55 as it passes between Earth and orbit of the Moon on Tuesday, with a bit of luck and with the right instrument, you just might be able to satisfy your curiosity.
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An asteroid will pass by the Earth on Tuesday at a distance closer than the Moon. It’s not expected to pose any hazard. It will be visible Tuesday night.
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NASA will track the path of asteroid 2005 YU55 as it safely zooms past Earth slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. That day, the asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 3:28 p.m. PST.
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Details have been emerging of the plan by billionaire entrepreneurs to mine asteroids for their resources.
Astronomers are watching for an asteroid the size of a double-decker bus which will pass within 70,000km of Earth on Friday.
 An asteroid about 11 metres in diameter roared past the Earth early Friday in one of the closest approaches ever recorded for such an event, astronomers say.
An 11m-wide asteroid passed within 60,000km of Earth on Friday, making it one of the 20 closest recorded approaches to our planet.
 Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico presented a simulation of what would happen if a one-megaton bomb were detonated on the surface of an asteroid 500 metres in diameter.
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An image of the 2005 YU55 asteroid generated from data taken in April 2010 by the Arecibo Radar Telescope in Puerto Rico
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Asteroid Blogs
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