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NASA: Massive Asteroid 'Unlike Any Other'

AP | By ALICIA CHANG | Posted 12.06.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- New views of the massive asteroid Vesta reveal it is more like a planet than an asteroid, scientists said Monday. Since slipping into ...

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NASA Spacecraft Gets Cozy With Massive Asteroid

Posted 10.01.2011

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ALICIA CHANG, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST (LOS ANGELES) -- Scientists are busy poring over images of the massive asteroid Vesta, the first time it has been...

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NASA's Next Great Mission

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 09.22.2011

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HOUSTON — With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull ...

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NASA Probe Orbits Massive Asteroid, Captures Rare Photograph

Posted 09.17.2011

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*Scroll down for photo.* (AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft was captured into orbit around the massive asteroid V...

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NASA Plans Bold New Asteroid Mission

AP | Posted 07.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — NASA is going to send a spacecraft to an asteroid and bring back samples to Earth. The space agency said Wednesday that the unman...

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NASA Craft Snaps Pic Of Distant Asteroid Target

AP | Posted 07.11.2011

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PASADENA, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft hurtling toward a massive asteroid has snapped a picture of its target, the first of many before it slips into o...

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NASA Plans Manned Mission To Asteroid

Aol News | Lee Speigel | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's a little soon for astronauts to suit up, but NASA is planning to send a manned mission to an asteroid in 2025....

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Scientists: Teamwork Needed To Ward Off Threat Of Asteroid Slamming Earth

AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 05.25.2011

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BERLIN — Countries around the world must team up to help prevent an asteroid, or giant speeding rock, from slamming into Earth, scientists and f...

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Asteroid Collision: Mysterious Space Debris Suggests Asteroids

Huffington Post | Amanda Ng | Posted 05.25.2011

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NASA scientists have spotted a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern with trailing streamers of dust that is unlike any image astronomers have seen befo...

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