Asteroid

Apophis Asteroid To Scrape Past Earth, Closer Than Any Known Object (VIDEO)

Posted 12.18.2009 | Technology

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Apophis, a 900-foot asteroid, was believed by scientists to have a greater than 2 percent chance of hitting earth. Wired explains, The asteroid appea...

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2009 VA: Asteroid Whizzes Past Earth Just 8,700 Miles Away

Mail Online | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

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Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday. The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700mil...

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NASA Downgrades Threat Of Large Asteroid Apophis

AP | AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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LOS ANGELES (AP)- NASA says the chances of an 885-foot asteroid striking Earth in 2036 have been downgraded. Scientists initially believed there was ...

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Asteroid 2009 DD45's Passing Was A Cosmic Near-Miss

AP | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green

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PASADENA, Calif. — An asteroid about the size of one that leveled more than 800 square miles of forest in Siberia a century ago just buzzed the ...

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Watch If An Asteroid Hit Earth (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 01.27.2009 | Green

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This extraordinary video is being passed around the web like wildfire, so we felt we should give our readers a chance to view it. How realistic does ...

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Asteroid Named For "Star Trek" Actor

AP | Samantha Gross | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt. An asteroid be...

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