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Bus Sized Asteroid 2012 BX34 Passed Near Earth
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Houston, TX – Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are preparing to curate and analyze samples from the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security ...
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GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- NASA says data from its Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta suggests the rocky body is cold and dark enough to have retained ice for billions of years.
Modeling of Vesta's average global temperatures and illumination...
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- NASA: Asteroid Vesta May Have Retained Ice (sci-tech-today.com)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Thursday, January 26, 2012 that an asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, January 27. According to NASA Asteroid Watch program that day, Asteroid 2012 BX34 will pass by Earth on Friday, January 27 at around 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 GMT) but will not pose any [...]
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I see that there is a symposium on the MarcoPolo-R mission coming up in late March, which reminds me that at a time when asteroid missions are increasingly in the news, I have yet to cover this one. It was about a year ago that the European Space Agency selected MarcoPolo-R as one of four [...]
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HOUSTON, Jan.17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- An astronaut and geologist will camp out in a prototype Space Exploration Vehicle this week to simulate an asteroid mission at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronaut Al Drew and geologist Jose M.
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An asteroid about the size of a school bus will pass close to Earth today, but it poses no danger to the planet, NASA astronomers say.
The huge rock, called Asteroid 2012 BX34, will close to within about 36,750 miles of Earth, or about .17 times the distance between the Earth and the moon, according to a Twitter post from Asteroid Watch, which is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Near Earth Object Office.
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Written by Jia-Rui C. Cook NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA - Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of years, according to the first published models [...]
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Proposals are being considered at NASA for a mission to an asteroid to study asteroid composition and movements. A NASA feasibility study showed that such an asteroid mission is possible with the new vehicles NASA is developing for a trip to the moon.
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