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Large asteroid 2005 YU55 paying close visit to Earth in November

Pasadena - NASA’s Near Earth Objects Program (NEO) detected a large asteroid known as 2005 YU55 approaching Earth to about 0.85 lunar distances (200,000 kilometres) on November 8 and 9, 2011.

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Scientists to discuss ways to deal with an asteroid impact

How would the world react to the threat of an asteroid impact? This is the topic of a three-day workshop on Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) and the dangers they present, that will be held in Darmstadt, Germany next week.

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Space garbage: 17,000 bits of manmade obstacle course for every space flight

There’s now so much junk up there that space missions have to be planned to avoid it. The orbital shrapnel is moving at about the speed of a bullet, and will cheerfully slice up your multi billion dollar spacecraft for no extra fee.

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Vesta is 'last of a kind' rock

The Vesta asteroid is the only remaining example of the original objects that came together to form the rocky planets like Earth, say scientists.

Asteroid orbs offer more precise data than craters

Objects called spherules are helping researchers record more precise information about asteroids that crashed to Earth from 35 million to 3.5 billion years ago.

VIDEO: Trump attacks Scottish wind farm

US tycoon Donald Trump has attacked the Scottish government's policy on green energy as he objected to the building of an offshore wind farm near a golf course he is building in Aberdeenshire

Asteroid makes near-miss fly-by

An 11m-wide asteroid passed within 60,000km of Earth on Friday, making it one of the 20 closest recorded approaches to our planet.

Newest, Smallest Member of the Solar System

Astronomers have spotted an object only 3,200 feet across, orbiting the sun 4.2 billion miles away. It's probably pretty unremarkable. There are probably countless balls of ice and rock much like it, out in the Kuiper Belt beyond the named... Kuiper Belt - Solar System - Sun - Astronomy - Earth