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Tag: Planetary defense

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23Aug/16

NASA's OSIRIS REx

What are the origins of life? There’s a rocket for that

August 23, 2016Space101955 Bennu, Asteroid, Dante Lauretta, Environment, Hayabusa, Japan, Jason Dworkin, Lockheed Martin, NASA, New Frontiers program, OSIRIS-REx, Outer space, Planetary defense, Planetary science, Space rendezvous, Spacecraft, Spaceflight, TAGSAM, Technology/Internet, United Statessmbale

NASA scientists are putting the finishing touches on a spacecraft designed to rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu in 2018 to find clues about the origins of life.
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30Oct/15

Large asteroid set to shoot by Earth on Halloween

October 30, 2015Human InterestAsteroid, Asteroid-impact avoidance, Asteroids, Asteroids in fiction, Chelyabinsk, Mexico, Minor planets, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Near-Earth asteroids, Near-Earth object, Paul Chodas, Planetary defense, Planetary science, Prevention, Russia, Space science, Space weapons, Spaceflight, TB145, Technology/Internetsmbale

Despite spooky nickname, asteroid is “not going to pose any hazard to the Earth” during flyby.

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