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NASA Radar Reveals Asteroid Has Its Own Moon
2013-05-31 10:52:43| rfglobalnet Home Page
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 was obtained on the evening of May 29, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was about 3.75 million miles (6 million kilometers) from Earth, which is 15.6 lunar distances.
Huge asteroid buzzing Earth has its own moon
2013-05-30 23:15:20| CNET News.com
New NASA radar images reveal a previously unobserved smaller satellite asteroid orbiting monstrous space rock "QE2." [Read more]
NASA plans asteroid mission. First stop: Bennu
2013-05-17 17:23:55| CNET News.com
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been approved for development, and NASA plans to send it to meet up with asteroid Bennu within the next five years. [Read more]
Enormous asteroid to zip by Earth
2013-05-17 00:51:14| CNET News.com
A giant space rock plans on making an appearance in our stellar neighborhood, but it's not as bad as you might think. [Read more]
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NASA's asteroid lasso mission said to halt Apocalypse scenario
2013-05-07 05:41:58| CNET News.com
Speaking at the Human to Mars Summit, NASA's top administrator, Charles Bolden, pledges to work to "prevent an asteroid from colliding with devastating force into our planet." [Read more]
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