Earth’s Orbit Crosses Through a ‘Cosmic Shooting Gallery’ of Asteroids
While skywatchers this week enjoyed the peak of the annual Peresid meteor shower, NASA released a rather ominous graphic that shows what’s happening with some of the larger rocks that hurtle past Earth...
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into space…Gravity opens this weekend, starring Oscar winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as intrepid astronauts out on a spacewalk. Disaster strikes,...
View ArticleAttention Makers: U.N. Asteroid Defense Plan Needs Your Help
Can the U.N. help Earth avoid a catastrophe of epic proportions? If there is anything we know about asteroids, it is a) they have the potential to devastate our planet and b) their orbits in our Solar...
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