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150-foot asteroid to make near-Earth flyby today

A fugitive from the asteroid belt will drop by Earth for a close flyby Friday – so near the planet that it will pass inside the orbits of some satellites. The asteroid, smallish as asteroids go, is thought to be about 150 feet wide and will be...

ocregister.com (3 months and 7 days ago)

Asteroid makes case for hydroplate theory

The near-earth asteroid 2012 DA14 makes the case for the Hydroplate Theory of the Global Flood, for a simple reason. No asteroid, if it formed in a belt between Mars and Jupiter, should fly so close to earth. Not...

examiner.com (3 months and 14 days ago)

Fasten your seat belt, it's going to be a bumpy rlight for trans-Atlantic travelers

LONDON - Tourists, exchange students, masters of the financial universe and other business travelers: It's time to buckle up.

azstarnet.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Could We Lasso the Next Asteroid?

Rather than sending astronauts out to an asteroid a group of scientists wants to instead bring an asteroid back to Earth.

discovery.com (3 months and 8 days ago)

Tech's Rust Belt Takes Shape

Technology has long distributed its riches unequally. But the sector has seldom seemed so sharply divided between disrupters and the disrupted.

wsj.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

Asteroid Flyby Day After Valentine's Day Could Be Record Breaking, Watch Asteroid's Trajectory [VIDEO]

A very large asteroid is set to flyby Earth on Feburary 15, one day after Valentine's Day. The asteroid will not hit Earth but will pass by incredibly close and could be a record for an asteroid of this size, reports NASA.

ibtimes.com (3 months and 14 days ago)

Technology's Rust Belt Takes Shape

Technology has long distributed its riches unequally. But the sector has seldom seemed so sharply divided between disrupters and the disrupted.

wsj.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

Nasa aims to capture and study asteroid in effort to protect Earth

Space agency to 'identify, capture and relocate' an asteroid to advance knowledge of asteroids and defend Earth from crashesNasa plans to capture an asteroid and send astronauts to study it, the US space agency announced in a statement outlining its new budget on Wednesday.The effort is intended to advance the knowledge of asteroids, and how to defend Earth from asteroid...

guardian.co.uk (1 month and 12 days ago)

Asteroid flyby viewings to be available online

You won't be able to see it from the Los Angeles area, so the best chance to track Friday's close shave with an asteroid will be online. NASA will host a live commentary from Jet Propulsion Laboratory as 2012 DA14, a 150-foot-wide chunk of space rock, passes within satellite range of Earth - 17,200 miles - at 11:25 a.m. Videos: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Flight Path | Record-Setting...

pasadenastarnews.com (3 months and 7 days ago)