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NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of peanut-shaped asteroid during 30,000 mph flyby
This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...
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Carbon-Rich Meteorites Lose Their Shock Value After Exploding On Impact
Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less "shocked" than expected, missing the effects often seen in a ...
NASA’s Lucy Captures Ice Cream Cone–Shaped Asteroid That Defies Expectations
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...
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NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...
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Why are meteor showers so unpredictable? The sun may be to blame
Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Just Flew by a Strange, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid. See the New Images From the Approach
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird.
Why some meteor showers are so unpredictable
Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...
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Hands-On With The Christiaan Van Der Klaauw Grand Planetarium Eccentric Meteorite
Have you ever seen a watch made of meteorite? ✓ Daan goes hands-on with Christiaan van der Klaauw's Grand Planetarium ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
It was considered a dress rehearsal for the more critical asteroid encounters ahead closer to Jupiter.This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at ...