Asteroids

Asteroids

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  Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer

  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. 

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  2 space rocks hours apart point up the danger

  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 ... 

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  150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth, no need to duck

  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 ... 

• Whew! Big asteroid no longer threat to Earth

  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 ... 

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  Craft spies interesting gullies on asteroid Vesta

  Scientists are puzzling over the discovery of gullies inside young craters on the giant asteroid Vesta. NASA's Dawn spacecraft spied two types of ...