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Everything you need to know for Friday's big asteroid flyby
2013-02-14 21:41:29| CNET News.com
Hours from now, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will make history when it becomes the biggest object ever witnessed getting this close to the Earth. [Read more]
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Earth-skimming DA14 asteroid contains $195 billion of minerals, if we can catch it
2013-02-13 19:02:15| Extremetech
On Friday, asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within 17,200 (27,700km) of Earth. DA14 is about 50 meters wide, and will be the closest ever fly-by of a celestial body that astronomers have known about in advance. If that wasn't thrilling enough, though, celestial mining company Deep Space Industries is saying that the asteroid, if we were to harvest its resources, may contain nearly $200 billion of minerals and water.
Another close asteroid encounter for Earth coming Friday
2013-02-12 22:56:00| CNET News.com
We've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth. Get ready for Friday's rendezvous with asteroid 2012 DA14. [Read more]
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Finally confirmed: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
2013-02-08 14:16:39| Extremetech
A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the CretaceousPaleogene extinction -- the event that wiped out roughly 75% of the planet's species, including almost every dinosaur -- was caused by an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 million years ago. The CretaceousPaleogene extinction was the last great extinction event to occur on Earth, and is most notable for causing the diversification of mammals that eventually resulted in Homo sapiens.
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Asteroid may have killed dinosaurs quicker than scientists thought
2013-02-08 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Dinosaurs died off about 33,000 years after an asteroid hit the Earth, much sooner than scientists had believed, and the asteroid may not have been the sole cause of extinction, according to a study released Thursday. Earth's climate may have been at a tipping point when a massive asteroid smashed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and triggered cooling temperatures that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers said. The time between the asteroid's arrival, marked by a 110-mile-(180-km-)wide...
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