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NASA Spacecraft Collision May Have Created A Meteor Shower That Will Hit Earth In...
Rocky debris from NASA's asteroid deflection mission is hurtling towards Earth and is expected to create the human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids within the next 13 years, scientists have predicted.
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Scientists Launch Undersea Expedition to Look For Interstellar Meteor That Hit Earth In 2014: Report
A meteorite believed to have come from beyond the solar system crashed into the ocean in 2014 off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Scientists have now launched an expedition to the depths of the ocean to search for the space rock.
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2014 Meteorite That Hit Earth Was Alien, Confirms US Space Command
The US Space Command (USSC) has recently confirmed that a meteor that hit Earth in January 2014 did come from another solar system and is, therefore, the first interstellar object.
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Asteroid Hits Earth's Atmosphere North of Iceland Within 2 Hours of Being Discovered
A three-meter wide astroid entered Earth's atmosphere north of Iceland just two hours after bring discovered. Most of it was vaporised before reaching the surface.
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Massive Meteor Shower "Hit Earth And Moon" 800 Million Years Ago
A giant meteor shower bombarded Earth and the Moon 800 million years ago with more than 30 times the force of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs, new research showed Tuesday.
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Threat Of Asteroid Impact Looming Over Earth: Experts
The risk of a sizeable asteroid hitting the Earth is significantly growing every few years, warn Czech scientists who analysed 144 fireballs from a recent meteor shower.
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Meteor shower as Earth hits belt of comet debris next week
Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular fireball show early next week when Earth hits a belt of comet debris known as the Perseids, astronomers say.
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Large asteroid heading to Earth? Pray, says NASA
That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a US House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday.
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Russia asks: How do you stop space objects hitting Earth?
Russia has found, to its cost, that it has no answers. But United States and European experts may be able to help with a few ideas that at first glance seem straight out of science fiction, including smashing spacecraft into asteroids, using the sun's rays to vaporise them, or blasting them with nuclear bombs.
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In a rarity, a meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same day
An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed over central Russia, creating shock waves that shattered windows and injured 1,200 people.
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Meteorite hits central Russia, 400 hurt
About 400 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia on Friday sending fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows and setting off car alarms.
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NASA Spacecraft Collision May Have Created A Meteor Shower That Will Hit Earth In...
Rocky debris from NASA's asteroid deflection mission is hurtling towards Earth and is expected to create the human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids within the next 13 years, scientists have predicted.
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Scientists Launch Undersea Expedition to Look For Interstellar Meteor That Hit Earth In 2014: Report
A meteorite believed to have come from beyond the solar system crashed into the ocean in 2014 off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Scientists have now launched an expedition to the depths of the ocean to search for the space rock.
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2014 Meteorite That Hit Earth Was Alien, Confirms US Space Command
The US Space Command (USSC) has recently confirmed that a meteor that hit Earth in January 2014 did come from another solar system and is, therefore, the first interstellar object.
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Asteroid Hits Earth's Atmosphere North of Iceland Within 2 Hours of Being Discovered
A three-meter wide astroid entered Earth's atmosphere north of Iceland just two hours after bring discovered. Most of it was vaporised before reaching the surface.
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Massive Meteor Shower "Hit Earth And Moon" 800 Million Years Ago
A giant meteor shower bombarded Earth and the Moon 800 million years ago with more than 30 times the force of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs, new research showed Tuesday.
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Threat Of Asteroid Impact Looming Over Earth: Experts
The risk of a sizeable asteroid hitting the Earth is significantly growing every few years, warn Czech scientists who analysed 144 fireballs from a recent meteor shower.
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Meteor shower as Earth hits belt of comet debris next week
Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular fireball show early next week when Earth hits a belt of comet debris known as the Perseids, astronomers say.
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Large asteroid heading to Earth? Pray, says NASA
That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a US House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday.
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Russia asks: How do you stop space objects hitting Earth?
Russia has found, to its cost, that it has no answers. But United States and European experts may be able to help with a few ideas that at first glance seem straight out of science fiction, including smashing spacecraft into asteroids, using the sun's rays to vaporise them, or blasting them with nuclear bombs.
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In a rarity, a meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same day
An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed over central Russia, creating shock waves that shattered windows and injured 1,200 people.
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Meteorite hits central Russia, 400 hurt
About 400 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia on Friday sending fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows and setting off car alarms.
