http://www.mail.com/subjects/24208-asteroids.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/24208-asteroids.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2001406-senator-nasa-to-lasso-asteroid-bring-closer.html WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday. The ship would capture the 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. Then using an Orion space capsule, a crew of about four astronauts would nuzzle up next to the rock in 2021 for spacewalking explo... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:46:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2001406-senator-nasa-to-lasso-asteroid-bring-closer.html 2013-04-05T22:46:31Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1895684-2-space-rocks-hours-apart-point-up-danger.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space rock even bigger than the meteor that exploded like an atom bomb over Russia could drop out of the sky unannounced at any time and wreak havoc on a city. And Hollywood to the contrary, there isn't much the world's scientists and generals can do about it. But some former astronauts want to give the world a fighting chanc... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:16:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1895684-2-space-rocks-hours-apart-point-up-danger.html 2013-02-15T23:16:46Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1875676-150-foot-asteroid-will-buzz-earth-to-duck.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size. But don't worry. Scientists promise the megarock will be at least 17,100 miles away when it zips past next Friday. "No Earth im... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1875676-150-foot-asteroid-will-buzz-earth-to-duck.html 2013-02-07T22:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1812400-whew-big-asteroid-longer-threat-to-earth.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Upon further review, a big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says. Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday from a relative safe 9 million miles away. They recalculated the space rock's trajectory and determined it wasn't o... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1812400-whew-big-asteroid-longer-threat-to-earth.html 2013-01-10T22:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1749534-craft-spies-interesting-gullies-asteroid-vesta.html PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Scientists are puzzling over the discovery of gullies inside young craters on the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA's Dawn spacecraft spied two types of channels on the crater walls of the second-largest object in the asteroid belt. The first kind — short and straight — were likely carved by dry material flowing down the depression. ... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1749534-craft-spies-interesting-gullies-asteroid-vesta.html 2012-12-06T21:28:00Z