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Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Genesis Crashes with Pieces of the Sun The world watched last September as the spacecraft Genesis, launched in 1998, returned to Earth with a crash-landing on Utah's desert floor.
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IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Gregory L. Matloff	Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with
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Chemistry World October 6, 2014 Tim Wogan	Solar wind whips up water on moon The volcanic glasses from the moon's soil let the scientists rule out other ways that water might have been created
Geotimes February 2007 Cassandra Willyard	Surprise! Stardust Lands Actual Stardust The dust is clearing around a cosmic puzzle that has long piqued the interest of astronomers. Tiny grains of dust, no larger than the width of a human hair, are revealing the conditions in which the solar system, and perhaps life, got its start.
Chemistry World May 25, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Mars is the planet that never grew up Scientists in the US have analysed isotopes in meteorites that resemble Martian geology and have discovered that the planet stopped growing while its solar system siblings carried on developing.
Geotimes December 2006 Sally Adee	Meteorite Pre-Dates Solar System A team of NASA researchers recently reported finding organic material in Tagish Lake meteorite fragments that pre-dates the solar system.
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.
TIME Asia June 28, 2010 Christopher Shay	The Moment The Japanese space program confirmed on June 10 it had unfurled the first interplanetary solar sail, powering its spacecraft IKAROS.
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.
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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.
Chemistry World May 9, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation, chemistry Mineral dust that swirls up into the atmosphere from Earth's surface plays a far more important role in both cloud formation and cloud chemistry than was previously realized.
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.
Chemistry World May 13, 2014 Tim Wogan	Chemistry calculations reveal Earth's inner core Theoretical calculations have confirmed that the Earth's core contains a significant proportion of oxygen.
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Popular Mechanics September 24, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Weaker Solar Wind Won't Slow Global Warming, May Threaten Astronauts If a spacecraft keeps chugging along for long enough, eventually it may find something startling.
Chemistry World August 21, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Aluminium helps date solar system New evidence has been found that supports the use of the radioactive aluminium isotope as a way of precisely dating objects formed during the first few million years of the solar system.
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.
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.
Salon.com June 29, 2001 Suzy Hansen	We've got company Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system...
Geotimes November 2004 Jay Chapman	Impacting the Origin of Life Impact events and meteorite strikes are often associated with mass extinctions and widespread devastation. But, despite this destructive reputation, impact events may have played a role in the evolution of life, according to several new studies.
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.
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Science News September 10, 2005 Ivars Peterson	Celestial Atomic Physics Objects in the solar system often have chaotic and unpredictable trajectories. This same uncertainty also appears in atomic and molecular systems.
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.
Geotimes January 2007 Sally Adee	Meteorite Pre-Dates Solar System When the Tagish Lake meteorite crashed to Earth in 2000, researchers suspected that it would provide one more clue to the origin of life, but instruments were not yet sophisticated enough to confirm a connection. That connection could soon turn up.
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.
Chemistry World April 16, 2015 Tim Wogan	Early Earth collision could clear up two geological mysteries Two seemingly unconnected geology problems -- the unexpected ratio of two neodymium isotopes in terrestrial rocks and the energy source for the dynamo that creates Earth's magnetic field -- could be solved by a new theory.
Popular Mechanics December 10, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	What NASA's WISE Space Mapper Will Look for in the Sky Hunting for brown dwarf stars, crashing galaxies, and asteroids.
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.
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 July 2004 Lisa Rossbacher	Manna from the Heavens? Most geologists have multiple opportunities to identify rock samples collected by the public. And the more valuable the finder believes the materials to be, the less he wants to believe it is pyrite or quartz or a bovine femur.
Wired March 24, 2008 Erin Biba	Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly Scientists discovered a signal that solar windstorms are on the way and some are predicting that at its peak (in about four years) things are gonna get nasty.
Chemistry World March 11, 2014 Tim Wogan	Dinosaur mass extinction may have been triggered by acid rain Most scientists accept the principal cause of the Cretaceous -- Tertiary mass extinction was a 10km asteroid hitting the Yucatan peninsula, but the precise mechanism by which this caused the extinction remains controversial.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004	Smart Dust Gets Magnetic One of the main challenges in making labs-on-a-chip is finding ways to control and mix tiny amounts of liquids. Researchers are using minuscule silicon particles to carry out these tasks.
Chemistry World May 13, 2014 Patrick Walter	Star chamber sparkles with space dust Nasa has created star dust down here on Earth. The dust was produced in a lab by simulating the conditions found in the atmosphere of a red giant star.
Popular Mechanics October 9, 2008 Thomas D. Jones	Why the World Needs Asteroid Insurance: Resident Astronaut Meteors, or bolides, strike Earth routinely, part of the hundred tons or so of cosmic debris that rain down on us every day. We orbit the Sun in a cosmic shooting gallery
Wired July 2003 Gregg Easterbrook	We're All Gonna Die! But it won't be from germ warfare, runaway nanobots, or shifting magnetic poles. A skeptical guide to Doomsday.
Chemistry World April 19, 2009 Sarah Houlton	Lead-lined clouds Lead in the atmosphere has a direct effect on how clouds form, according to research by an international team of scientists.
Chemistry World February 26, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Your Hair Knows Where You've Been From a single strand of hair, scientists can now determine where a person has been living recently.
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.