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Russian Meteorite: Videos and Memes
Here's a summary of all 2013 Russian meteorite related things.
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What Would Happen If the Asteroid Actually Hit Earth Today?
Astronomers are completely confident that the 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 is not going to hit us, passing "only" at 17,200 miles from Earth—the closest encounter with an asteroid ever predicted.
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Russia Calls for International Anti-Asteroid System after Meteor Terror
Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin urges nations to club together in absence of space debris interception technologies.
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Russian parliament member says meteor was actually a U.S. weapons test
Vladimir Zhirinovsky loves to say crazy, anti-Western things, and he found a great opportunity today.
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Watch the fireball that streaked across the San Francisco skies last night
It wasn't nearly as dramatic as the fireball that exploded over Russia yesterday, but last night the San Francisco Bay Area saw its own light show last night when a meteor streaked across the night sky. NBC Bay Area reports that the fireball was spotted at approximately 7:45 pm last night, with...
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Russian Meteor Strike Aftermath
The Russian meteor that exploded over Russia on Feb. 15 caused extensive damage and injured over 1,000 people. Here's the view from ground zero of a meteor strike.
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Will Meteor Lead To Push for More NASA Funding?
Cleanup has begun a day after a meteor blast that took the world by surprise Friday shook Russia’s Chelyabinsk region. What the Associated Press describes as a “small army of workers” has mobilized to replace an estimated 50 acres of windows that were shattered by the sonic waves.
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Why Didn't We See the Russian Asteroid Coming?
Early this morning, a fireball blazed over the Chelyabinsk region in Russia, shattering windows, collapsing roofs, and injuring hundreds of people. Given that it was one of the biggest meteors to hit Earth in possibly a century, why didn't we see it coming?
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Meteorite fragments found in Urals
Fragments from a meteorite have been found in Russia's Urals region where it struck on Friday, injuring some 1,200 people, Russian scientists say.
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What creates this black patch in a star-filled sky?
This image from the European Southern Observatory's Wide Field Imager in Chile reveals one of the galaxy's brightest regions, with one weird, inky exception.
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Difference between an asteroid and a meteorite
Think you know the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite?
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Meet the Meteorite Hunter
Michael Farmer is a professional meteorite hunter. Find out why he won't be heading to Russia for a piece of the action.
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FYI: Do Meteor Showers Ever Run Out of Meteors?
Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes through a field of cosmic debris.
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NASA restores communication with International Space Station
NASA restored communication with the International Space Station on Tuesday after connections went dark following a routine computer software update.
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How Nicolaus Copernicus rewrote the rules of the solar system
The Google homepage today depicts seven metal planets rotating around a painted sun – an homage to the pioneering Renaissance-era astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. So who was Copernicus, exactly?
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Earth As Art: 'How Did Nature Do That?'
Satellites help track storms, power the GPS signals in our cars and phones and beam TV signals around the world. But they also send back striking, totally disarming images of planet Earth.
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Asteroid Apocalypse? Why Scientists Worry About 2036 ‘Planet Buster’
Russia’s meteor was a fleabite. In Newsweek, Michio Kaku on the one in 2036 that could destroy our planet.
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Curiosity Yields First Mars Soil Sample --Will It Reveal Signs of Past Life?
Curiosity rover delivered its first powdered sample of Mars soil Drilled out of the Martian rock a couple of weeks ago. NASA scientists are now waiting for the rover to digest the sample, analyse it using its onboard chemistry-science lab...
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The True Story of History's Only Known Meteorite Victim
The Russian meteorite isn't the first to impact people. Ann Hodges is the only confirmed person in history to have been hit by a meteorite.
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Space Tourist Dennis Tito Eyes 2018 for Manned Mars Trip
Tito's Inspiration Mars Foundation is holding a press conference next week, reports suggest ambitious timetable for Mars mission to be announced.
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