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Asteroids , sometimes called minor planets or planetoids , are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are smaller than planets but larger th...
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NSSDC Lunar & Planetary Science: Asteroids Page ... Asteroid Fact Sheet ... Information on Asteroid 433 Eros...
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The image above is a false color view of the asteroid 951 Gaspra taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Below is a table of information on selected asteroids, and at the bottom of the page are comments on the asteroids.
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The big news this week is the impact on Jupiter that took place on July 19, 2009. This appears analogous to the 1994 impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, except that in this case the hit was from a single projectile. ... Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards title...
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Undetected until only days ago, the asteroid whizzed by on Monday—and could be back for a return visit. ... Discovered only days ago, asteroid 2009 DD45 zipped between our planet and the moon at 13:44 universal time (8:44 a.m. ET). The asteroid was moving at about 12 miles (20 kilometers) a second when it was closest...
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Earth Narrowly Misses Asteroid Strike, On November 6, 2009, The Catalina Sky Survey noticed something in the sky an asteroid, seemingly on a collision course with Earth. The object would miss our planet by a mere 8,700 miles. ... Read more about this asteroid at the Daily Mail.
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Overview of current scientific knowledge of asteroids. ... Asteroid table ... The largest asteroid by far is 1 Ceres. It is 974 km in diameter and contains about 25% of the mass of all the asteroids combined. The next largest are 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta and 10 Hygiea which are between 400 and 525 km in diameter.
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NASA ; Larger image; Stoney asteroid ; 243 Ida and its satellite ; Dactyl (more ; information and orbit). ... As dark as soot, carbonaceous asteroid 253; Mathilde is rich in carbon compounds and other dark substances common in the outer region of the Main Asteroid Belt (more). Mathilde is like a loose rubble...
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Reasons to heist Shove Box ... You may have heard that there is a new MacHeist in the works, this one offering six applications for free. While I don’t post about these things very often, the peculiarity of one of the apps in this bundle warrants ... Asteroid is powered by WordPress; Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).
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