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The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth
Scientists and engineers met last week at Caltech to discuss the possibility of capturing an asteroid and placing it in orbit near Earth to use as a base for manned space missions further into the...
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Black Hole Eats Asteroids, Burps Out X-Rays
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may be constantly snacking on asteroids. A new study finds that an asteroid at least 12 miles wide falling into the black hole would account for...
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Earth Experiences Back-to-Back Asteroid Close Encounters
Two small asteroids buzzed by the Earth, zooming well within the moon’s orbit, over the last couple days. Neither posed any danger but the events were eagerly captured by amateur astronomers, and the...
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Watch Live Now: Giant Asteroid Flies By Earth
Beginning at 4:30 Pacific (7:30 Eastern) you can watch a live embed feed from the Slooh Space Camera.
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Watch Live: Searching for Scars of a Giant Explosion on Jupiter
Live show starts at 7 p.m. Pacific/10 p.m. Eastern. Watch as the Slooh Space Camera searches for scars from an enormous explosion in Jupiter's upper atmosphere during a live show.
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Watch Live as a Skyscraper-Sized Asteroid Flies by Earth
An enormous chunk of space rock will be whizzing right past the Earth tonight and you can watch it live during a Slooh Space Camera show, starting at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern.
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Watch Live: Asteroid Toutatis Gives Earth a Cosmically Close Shave
Watch live as the 3-mile-wide asteroid 4179 Toutatis zips by the Earth today during a show from the Slooh Space Camera collaboration starting at noon Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern.
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NASA Considers Capturing an Asteroid, Setting It to Orbit the Moon
NASA is reportedly considering capturing an asteroid to put in a high orbit around the moon. Details remain sketchy but the plan could be fully realized in as little as six to ten years.
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Watch Live: Former Doomsday Asteroid Apophis Flies by Earth
Watch as the asteroid 99942 Apophis, once classified as the most likely asteroid to hit the Earth, zooms past our planet during two live shows today from the Slooh Space Camera collaboration. The first...
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How to Deflect Killer Asteroids With Spray Paint
A fresh paint job might be all that’s needed to prevent a giant asteroid from raining destruction upon our planet. Though strange-sounding, the strategy would make use of a real-world phenomenon known...
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How to Watch Tomorrow’s Record-Breaking Asteroid Flyby of Earth
A large space rock known as asteroid 2012 DA14 will be zipping by our planet on Feb. 15, coming within 28,000 km of Earth, the closest approach ever seen for an object its size. You can catch the event...
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Engineers Identify 12 Asteroids We Could Capture With Existing Rocket Technology
By looking through the catalog of known asteroids, aerospace engineers have identified 12 candidates that we could reach out and capture using existing rocket technology.
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First Asteroid Discovered in 2014 Hits Earth’s Atmosphere
An asteroid first sighted yesterday has most likely plunged directly into our planet's atmosphere and burned up. The object's name, 2014 AA, highlights the fact that it was the very first asteroid...
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