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New NASA Dawn Visuals Show Vesta's 'Color Palette'
New color data from NASA's Dawn mission give scientists an inside look at the chemical composition of giant asteroid Vesta.
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Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3-D
Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video.
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NASA Releases Updated Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55
NASA Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, and more refined, movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55.
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NASA's Swift Catches Asteroid Flyby
As asteroid 2005 YU55 swept past Earth in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, Swift monitored the fast-moving space rock.
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NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55
Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55.
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NASA Captures Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth
NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth.
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NASA in Final Preparations for Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby
A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colorful fireball witnessed by people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States.
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NASA Says Comet Elenin Gone and Should Be Forgotten
Latest indications are this relatively small comet has broken into even smaller, even less significant, chunks of dust and ice.
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Comet Storm In Nearby Solar System
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system.
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NASA's Dawn Science Team Presents Early Science Results
Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission have provided details about the southern hemisphere of Vesta, which boasts one of the largest mountains in the solar system.
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New View of Vesta Mountain From NASA's Dawn Mission
A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as high as Mt. Everest, amidst the topography in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Space Observatory Gives Clues to Creation of Oceans
Astronomers have found a new cosmic source for the same kind of water that appeared on Earth billions of years ago and created the oceans.
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins New Vesta Mapping Orbit
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has completed a gentle spiral into its new science orbit for an even closer view of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth
New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought.
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Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Remains a Mystery
The family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit according to new observations.
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NASA's Dawn Collects a Bounty of Beauty From Vesta
A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Meteor Likely Cause of Southwest U.S. Light Show
A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colorful fireball witnessed by people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States.
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Comet Elenin Poses No Threat to Earth
Often, comets are portrayed as harbingers of gloom and doom in movies and on television, but most pose no threat to Earth.
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NASA's Asteroid Photographer Beams Back Science Data
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now in its first science-collecting orbit at Vesta.
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DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space
NASA-funded research has discovered that some of the basic building blocks of life may have been brought to a young Earth by meteorites.