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Asteroid Warning: NASA Discovers Ten ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Rocks Close To Earth

Asteroid Warning: NASA Discovers Ten ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Rocks Close To Earth

June 14, 2017 by Comments are Disabled

Via Physics-Astronomy.com NASA has been working determinedly to find dangers that Earth face from space, and has said that it has discovered 10 new asteroids which it considers could damage life on Earth. This vital discovery was made by NASA’s asteroid identifying mission – Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or NEOWISE. Amy Mainzer, NEOWISE main researcher from NASA’s Jet […]

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Earth woefully unprepared for surprise comet or asteroid, Nasa scientist warns

Earth woefully unprepared for surprise comet or asteroid, Nasa scientist warns

December 13, 2016 by Comments are Disabled

Via The Guardian: December 13, 2016, 8:06 am Large and potentially dangerous asteroids and comets are extremely rare, scientists said – ‘But on the other hand they are the extinction-level events.’ A rocket in storage and ready to launch within a year ‘could mitigate the possibility of a sneaky asteroid coming in from a place that’s hard to observe, like […]

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