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Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
NASA's New Office Wants To Save Earth From Asteroids In a move that could easily double as a plotline in a sci-fi flick, NASA has created a task force that will be charged with scouting for asteroids and other potentially devastating threats to planet Earth.   |
Geotimes
June 2005
Sara Pratt |
Revising the Asteroid Threat Scale Although scientists still assign Torino Impact Hazard Scale values via the same method, the language used to describe some levels has now changed to better inform the public -- and the media -- of the risk without unintentionally scaring people. |
Chemistry World
January 23, 2012
Steve Down |
Asteroid Ages United by New Isotope Standard Meteorites derived from hydrous asteroids suggest that these space bodies formed later than other asteroids. |
Science News
March 27, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Pinpointing Killer Asteroids Astronomers have identified more than 230,000 asteroids in orbit around the sun, and the number is increasing daily. Some of these objects are on courses that could lead to a collision with Earth. If the asteroid is sufficiently large, the results could be catastrophic. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids. |
Geotimes
January 2004
Richard P. Binzel |
Asteroid Futures The efforts to locate large asteroids that might impact Earth, and what could be done if a threat was found. |
National Defense
February 2016
Stew Magnuson |
Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible. |
Chemistry World
August 10, 2015
Jennifer Newton |
Asteroids -- relics of ancient time The reader is treated to a glorious journey, interspersed with great pictures, poetry and quotes, that spans bygone beliefs to present day findings on the mysterious bodies that are asteroids. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Young Planets Collide Size mattered, astronomers say, when it came to whether or not material in our early solar system stuck together to become today's terrestrial planets. New models suggest that collisions between large objects did not always result in those objects combining, as previously thought. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2006
David Noland |
The Threat is Out There More than 100,000 asteroids hurtle past our planet. But only one -- that we know of -- may hit us in the next 30 years. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Barry E. DiGregorio |
No Asteroid Impact on Mars After All The expected asteroid impact would have let scientists study crater formation and underlying Martian geology. |
Chemistry World
April 28, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Frosty asteroid surprises astronomers Water and organic molecules on Earth could have been brought here by impacting asteroids and comets, say two groups of US astronomers. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
American Companies Are One Step Closer To Claiming Asteroid Treasure Who will regulate this American asteroid mineral rush? Probably the Federal Aviation Administration, theorizes The Washington Post. |
Chemistry World
May 28, 2013 |
Extreme extraction Imagine how extreme it would be to mine at the bottom of the ocean or on asteroids in the depths of space. That is exactly what a few pioneering companies are planning to do. |
