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White House Adviser: US Must Prepare for Asteroid

(Oct. 25) -- If an asteroid were on a collision course with Earth, would we be ready to defend against its destructive impact or would we be helpless and defenseless? NASA, America's space agency, is being charged with leading the way to protect not only the U.S. but the entire world in the event of such a horrifying...

Asteroid Double Whammy? Just for Show, This Time ...

(Sept. 7) -- They're coming our way ... both of them! Two asteroids will narrowly miss colliding with Earth on Wednesday, according to NASA. Fortunately, neither is very big, nor are they expected to do much more than provide skywatchers with a brief, breathtaking sight before they continue their voyage into the oblivion....

NASA Boosts Efforts to Spot Earth-Smashing Asteroids

(June 30) -- Killer asteroids, beware. NASA is watching. Astronomers have long worried that a large space rock would remain undetected until it was about to smash into Earth, in what might be called the "Armageddon" scenario. In that 1998 blockbuster starring Bruce Willis, the rock in question is described as "the size of...

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Scary Asteroid Survey Spotlights 'Impact Hazard ' Of Space Rocks

Know that space rock that wreaked havoc on the world in the 1998 action movie Armageddon ?

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WATCH: Zoom Over Amazing Asteroid During Surreal Sunrise

Even though NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting the asteroid Vesta since mid-2011, the rocky world still yields surprises--from its complex geological features to its approximately 4.5-billion-year history in the solar system.

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05/29/12 25 minutes with asteroid 2012 KT42 Source: West Fargo Pioneer - Fargo ND I set a snare and captured my asteroid this morning. 2012 KT42, a space rock estimated at 10-30 feet across, blew by Earth earlier today at a distance of only 8,700 miles, well below the altitude of geosynchronous satellites we rely on for communications around the globe.
05/29/12 Shaw Prize Winners Announced Source: The Wall Street Journal HONG KONGâA pair of scientists shared the 2012 Shaw Prize in astronomy for their groundbreaking research on the early stages of planet formation.
05/29/12 Weighing Space Rock Source: NASA A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away.
05/29/12 Newly found asteroid buzzes Earth Source: PhysOrg.com The sequence of images above were sent to us by Alex Gibbs from the Catalina Sky Survey , who made the discovery of 2012 KT42 with the 1.5 meter telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona.
05/22/12 Asteroid specialist will present talk Thursday Source: Arizona Daily Star - Tucson AZ Ed Beshore, the former director of the Catalina Sky Survey, will talk about the search for dangerous asteroids and comets and a mission to explore one of them at 3:30 p.m.