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| | Asteroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Adding in the next three most massive asteroids, 4 Vesta (12%), 2 Pallas (9%), and 10 Hygiea (4%), bring this figure up 66%; while the three after that, 511 Davida (1.6%), 704 Interamnia (1.4%), and 3 Juno (1.2%), only add another 4% to the total mass. | | | In the LucasArts game The Dig (originally released in 1995) and its novelization, the impact-threatening asteroid Attila turns out to be an alien probe. | | | As the number of asteroids began to run into the hundreds, and eventually the thousands, discoverers began to give them increasingly frivolous names. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid
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| | BBC - Science & Nature - Space - Asteroids |
| | Expert Q and A on Asteroids Asteroid Attack Game | | | Defend your spaceship in our classic asteroid game | | | The oddest looking asteroid so far is called 'Kleopatra', which looks like a 220km long dog bone. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/asteroids/index.shtml
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| | Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bad TV |
| | By the time the next big asteroid strikes, we may actually get a good, scientific movie. | | | But then they go on and have the second asteroid on a collision course with Earth too! | | | We are now talking odds so small that even someone who plays the lottery habitually would laugh at them. |
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http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/asteroid.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Asteroid |
| | NEAR Shoemaker’s goal was to go into orbit around the asteroid Eros. | | | Scientists have suggested several strategies for deflecting asteroids from a collision course with Earth. | | | Asteroids are usually referred to by both number and name. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761551567/Asteroid.html
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| | Astronomy for kids - learn about asteroids |
| | Due to their smaller size, asteroids do not have enough gravity to pull themselves into the shape of a ball. | | | Astronomers group asteroids into different categories based on the way they reflect sunlight. | | | 26 very large asteroids have been discovered, which is probably most of the big ones. |
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http://www.kidsastronomy.com/asteroid.htm
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| | StarChild: The Asteroid Belt |
| | If an asteroid is captured by the gravitational pull of a planet, the asteroid can be pulled out of the belt and go into orbit as a moon around the planet that pulled on it. | | | Think about it this way: the asteroid belt is a big highway in a circle around the Sun. | | | Sometimes, the asteroid cars run into one another. |
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http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/asteroids.html
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| | The java online arcade game Asteroid |
| | If you choose this option, the game will not load the files of sound and the time of loading will be 40% faster. | | | To keep your best score, your browser must accept cookies. | | | Use the down arrow key to go to hyperspace |
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http://www.arcadevillage.com/olgquarter/asteroid
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| | Asteroid 4179 Toutatis |
| | The high-resolution Goldstone image at the right was obtained on Dec. 8, at the asteroid's closest approach. | | | Toutatis will make its closest planetary approach since at least 1353 and until at least 2562 on Sep. 29, 2004, when the closest COM-to-COM separation of Earth and Toutatis will be 1,549,834+/-10 km (4.0 lunar distances). | | | The discoverers named the asteroid after a Celtic/Gallic god whose name is invoked often in the well known comic book series "Les Aventures d'Asterix," set in ancient Gaul. |
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http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/4179_Toutatis/toutatis.html
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| | SPACE.com -- Whew! Asteroid Won't Hit Earth in 2029, Scientists Now Say |
| | The difficulty in predicting a precise path earlier in the game owes to knowing only a small section of an asteroid's orbit around the Sun. | | | Scientists cannot say that the asteroid will never hit Earth, but there are no serious threats in the foreseeable future. | | | Asteroid Won't Hit Earth in 2029, Scientists Now Say |
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_update_B_041227.html
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| | Asteroids |
| | the dark C-types are harder to see), the percentages above may not be representative of the true distribution of asteroids. | | | All other known asteroids are less than 340 km across. | | | There are many planetary satellites that are probably better thought of as captured asteroids. |
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http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/asteroids.html
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| | Asteroid named after ‘Hitchhiker’ humorist - Space News - MSNBC.com |
| | But there's a backlog of not-yet-named asteroids, and so the discoverers occasionally take requests. | | | Other honorees range from Ball Aerospace and the city of Las Vegas to the sometimes-overlooked co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, Rosalind Franklin. | | | Some names had to be rejected this time around because they took the form of unpronounceable acronyms, running afoul of the IAU's rules. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6867061
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| | AppleInsider Apple developing FireWire audio interface for GarageBand |
| | A forthcoming revision to the Mac OS X Sound Preference Pane will reportedly allow Asteroid to interface with Apple's Soundtrack, Logic, DVD Player, and other third party applications. | | | Asteroid will require Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later, iLife ‘04 or later, and a computer with a built-in FireWire port. | | | But even at $149, Asteroid will represent one of the lowest priced FireWire breakout boxes on the market, selling for $250 less than M-Audio's more sophisticated FireWire 410 audio interface. |
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http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=756
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| | PSRD Archive: Asteroid Articles |
| | Applied cosmochemistry plays a key role in plans to use the resources of the Moon, Mars, and asteroids. | | | Asteroids have lower densities than expected, probably because they have been disrupted and then reassembled into porous rubble piles. | | | Mineral intergrowths in chondritic meteorites may indicate that some asteroids were heated by impact. |
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http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Archive/Archive-Asteroids.html
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| | An asteroid, headed our way csmonitor.com |
| | So NASA researchers have begun considering whether the US needs to tag the asteroid, known as 99942 Apophis, with a radio beacon before 2013. | | | After next year, the next opportunity to gather data on the asteroid from the ground will come in 2012-2013. | | | When the possibility of the asteroid passing through two other keyholes is taken into account, the combined chance of the asteroid hitting the planet shifts to 1 in 10,000, notes Clark Chapman, a senior scientist with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0726/p01s04-stss.html
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| | Asteroid |
| | It is not every day that I get an overseas call with someone shouting; Congratulations! | | | To learn more about the origin of the asteroids, NASA launched NEAR four years ago (February 17, 1996) for the purpose of reaching and going into continuous orbit around the asteroid named Eros; this was successfully achieved on St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 2000. | | | One theory is that these are remains from the time when primordial matter around the Sun coalesced into planets, but these bits and pieces failed to do so. |
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http://www.sitchin.com/asteroid.htm
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| | CNN - Asteroid on course for near-collision with Earth - March 11, 1998 |
| | Astronomers say that even if it were on a path to hit Earth, technology might be available by then that would be capable of deflecting the asteroid. | | | CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Astronomers say a mile-wide asteroid described as "the most dangerous one we've found so far" may be on course for a near-miss -- or even a collision -- with Earth in the year 2028. | | | An asteroid 6 to 10 miles across collided with the Earth about 65 million years ago and is thought to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, along with 75 percent of all other species. |
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http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9803/11/asteroid
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| | Asteroid Introduction |
| | More likely, asteroids are material that never coalesced into a planet. | | | Astronomers have studied a number of asteroids through Earth-based observations. | | | Spacecraft that have flown through the asteroid belt have found that the belt is really quite empty and that asteroids are separated by very large distances. |
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http://www.solarviews.com/eng/asteroid.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Asteroid-eating robots considered for Earth's protection |
| | While those methods promise some fantastic explosions — and maybe a blockbuster hit — a team of engineers are looking at a more patient approach. | | | The key, they said, is to have a lander on each face of an asteroid working together autonomously to push the space rock in one direction as it tumbles through space. | | | At the heart of the MADMEN concept is a mass driver, which would eject asteroid material as it is drilled out of the rock and sling it out into space using electromagnetic acceleration. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-19-asteroid-eaters_x.htm
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| | ONE-MILE-WIDE ASTEROID TO PASS CLOSE TO THE EARTH IN 2028 |
| | Given also that the object was quite large as earth-approaching asteroids go, perhaps one mile across, it was added to the list of "potentially hazardous asteroids" (PHAs) that need to be monitored, lest they are destined to come dangerously close to the earth over the course of the next several centuries. | | | This distance may seem large in human terms, but it was less than had previously been predicted in advance for any other known asteroid during the foreseeable future. | | | After the discovery observations on December 6, observations made by two Japanese amateur astronomers during the following two weeks showed that the minimum distance between the orbits of 1997 XF and the earth was very small. |
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| | CNN.com - Giant asteroid could hit Earth in 2014 - Sep. 2, 2003 |
| | Asteroid "2003 QQ47" will be closely monitored over the next two months. | | | A giant asteroid is heading for Earth and could hit in 2014, U.S. astronomers have warned British space monitors. | | | CNN.com - Giant asteroid could hit Earth in 2014 - Sep. 2, 2003 |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/02/asteroid.reut
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| | Asteroid (1997) (TV) |
| | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Asteroid (1997) (TV) | | | Every building and vehicle in the film seems to be filled with gasoline - everything explodes (by the way - when will we see a film where cars and houses don't explode and diesel oil doesn´t catch fire?). | | | In the two more well-known films on this subject, Armageddon and Deep Impact, the meteor is stopped by bombing it with thermonuclear devices - a completely sensible theory. |
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| | APOD: 2004 June 19 - Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon |
| | Many other asteroids are now known to have moons. | | | Dactyl is the first moon of an asteroid ever discovered. | | | Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. |
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| | Event-Based Science: Asteroid! |
| | The correct estimate from the table is 91.0 minutes. | | | Although both activities provide students with a reason to investigate similarities and differences among the planets and their moons, It May Be Our Only Escape provides a reason that is more clearly tied to the TASK. | | | VESTRA PHOTO On March 24, 2003, a scientist on the space station pointed his digital camera out the window and snapped a picture of asteroid Vesta in the constellation Virgo. |
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http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/eventscience/ebs.Asteroid.html
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| | BBC NEWS Science/Nature Space rock 'on collision course' |
| | This asteroid has now become the most threatening object in the short history of asteroid detection | | | An asteroid discovered just weeks ago has become the most threatening object yet detected in space. | | | It has been called the most threatening object in space |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2147879.stm
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| | National Museum of Natural History - Dinosaur Extinction |
| | This conceptual sketch depicts the asteroid moments before impact, as it takes aim on Mexico's Yucatan coastline. | | | The evidence has grown so overwhelming that few scientists dispute that an asteroid nearly 10 km (6 mi) wide slammed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. | | | Approaching at an angle from the southeast, it will send the main force of its impact northward in a fire storm over North America. |
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http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/blast/asteroid_hyp.htm
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| | Asteroid Comet Impact Hazards |
| | A new 500-m asteroid has appeared with a possible impact in 2102, yielding a value of 2 on the Torino impact risk scale. | | | For a variety of recent news releases on the impact hazard (covering Apophis, the Gravity Tractor, Itokawa, Pan-STARRS, and the House Authorization of advanced surveys), Read more... | | | Asteroid 2004 VD17 classed as Torino Scale 2 |
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| | Draconic or Soul Astrology by Jan Carter |
| | Also, the connections with important people in our lives are beautifully illustrated using this system, plus the timing of events. | | | The Dragon/ Serpent are Goddess energies relating to Birth, Death and Renewal. | | | Pamela Crane, author of The Draconic Chart, and my friend Jacob Schwhartz, author of The Asteroid Encyclopedia, are pioneers in this field. |
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http://awakening-healing.com/Draconic_Astrology.htm
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