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Space: The Solar System
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Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight years - Largest Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Detected in Eight Years      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Twilight observations have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in th ...

Space: Exploration
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Gaia space telescope rocks the science of asteroids - Gaia Space Telescope Rocks the Science of Asteroids      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The European Gaia space mission has produced an unprecedented amount of new, improved, and detailed...

Space: The Solar System
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Sand-sized meteoroids are peppering asteroid Bennu - Sand-sized Meteoroids are Peppering Asteroid Bennu      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new study posits that the major particle ejections off the near-Earth asteroid Bennu may be the co ...

Space: The Solar System
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Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid - Scientists Release First Analysis of Rocks Plucked from Speeding Asteroid      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists have now begun to announce the first results from the analysis of a handful of dirt that...

Offbeat: General Offbeat: Space Space: Astronomy Space: Exploration Space: General Space: The Solar System
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Researchers probe how a piece of the moon became a near-Earth asteroid      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Two years after the striking discovery that a near-Earth asteroid could be a chunk of the moon, anot ...

Space: Astronomy Space: Exploration Space: General Space: The Solar System
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Composition of asteroid Phaethon      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Asteroid Phaethon, which is five kilometers in diameter, has been puzzling researchers for a long ti ...

Offbeat: General Offbeat: Space Space: Exploration Space: General Space: The Solar System
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Surprising phosphate finding in NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust ...

Space: Exploration Space: The Solar System
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Lunar glass shows Moon asteroid impacts mirrored on Earth - Lunar Glass Shows Moon Asteroid Impacts Mirrored on Earth      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A research team has found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions of years ago coincided precisely wit ...

Space: The Solar System
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Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars craters - Consistent Asteroid Showers Rock Previous Thinking on Mars Craters      (via sciencedaily.com) 

New research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars h ...

Space: The Solar System
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Remnants of an ancient asteroid shed new light on the early solar system - Remnants of an Ancient Asteroid Shed New Light on the Early Solar System      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in the early solar system...

Paleontology: Early Mammals and Birds
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Primates’ ancestors may have left trees to survive asteroid - Primates’ Ancestors May Have Left Trees to Survive Asteroid      (via sciencedaily.com) 

When an asteroid struck 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs not related to birds and three- ...

Paleontology: Climate Space: Exploration Space: General Space: The Solar System
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Limitations of asteroid crater lakes as climate archives      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

In southern Germany just north of the Danube, there lies a large circular depression between the hil...