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ATLANTIC SKIES: There's a new Lucy in the sky and her mission is to help us understand the solar system
British rock band The Beatles put out a song titled ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. The song’s letters, LSD, were said at ...
Arizona Daily Star5d
Tucson astronomer: Media frenzy about unlikely asteroid impact created real fear
“NASA really worked hard to get the most accurate ... “We don’t even check when we send probes through the asteroid belt.” Movies depict the belt as crowded and rock-filled, when in ...
NASA warns 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza will make its closest approach to Earth for more than 100 YEARS tomorrow
TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...
Discover Magazine6d
Asteroid Mining Gives Companies Hope in the Search for Rare Metals
Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...
Science Daily6d
Meteorites: A geologic map of the asteroid belt
Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...
Earth.com6d
What meteorites tell us about their birthplace in space
Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...
Space.com6d
Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
Knowridge Science Report6d
Mapping the asteroid belt: Where do meteorites come from?
For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...
Brandon Sun6d
Some asteroids get multiple chances to hit Earth
NASA’S asteroid tracker shows a depiction of asteroid 2024 ... The Kirkwood gaps are explained by asteroids similarly ...
7 latest images of Dwarf Planets captured by NASA
Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.