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Stephen L. Thompson @oneoveralpha (434) • Brookville, Pennsylvania 12 Oct 16

So a couple of weeks ago SpaceX's Elon Musk gave a presentation about how he plans to build big rockets to send people to Mars. Then I think last week, the head of United Launch Alliance (SpaceX's rival) said that their rockets...

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Asteroids and Meteors: What Is The Difference?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 20 Feb 16

When we were in Jamaica a few years ago, we were told that there was going to be a meteor shower one night, so a large group of us went to a beach that was suggested to us, that would be perfect for viewing the sky at night. We...

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Which projects should NASA fund next?

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 25 Oct 15

NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has outlined five potential projects that could be chosen as the next big adventure as part of their "Discovery" programme. Money has been allocated to allow each project to...

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Asteroid near-misses earth

D4n1el @D4n1el (74) • Czech Republic 11 Sep 10

Hi guys. I read on internet one interesting news. Asteroid near-misses earth. Asteroids names is "2010 RX30" and "2010 RF12". What do you think about this?

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Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed by an Asteroid?

CherBear04 @CherBear04 (483) • United States 12 Apr 08

I just happened to come across this article this morning from FOXNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2993,343674,00.html I thought it was really interesting that they found that an asteroid could be what hit and destroyed...

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Asteroids - Free game

zenith2007 @zenith2007 (241) • Italy 4 Feb 08

Nothing better than to send some powdered stone space with our powerful weapons to deceive boredom. If we are the only armed vessel in the area and we must defend the earth from a shower of meteors hat could condemn to extinction,...

Asteroid aiming to hit Mars in January 2008

VKXY62 @VKXY62 (1605) • Australia 25 Dec 07

Hi Mylotters, an asteroid recently discovered just after it whizzed past the Earth this year is rapidly approaching the red planet Mars. The asteroid named 2007 WD7 is just under 100 metres across. It is travelling at several...

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How prepared is the world in dealing with an earth bound Ateroid?

Nic @academic2 (7000) • Uganda 4 Oct 07

I know asteroids constitutes perhaps a bigger threat to our survival on earth than the much hyped global warming, because global warming is not flush event-it is a gradual effect but ateroids could wipe off life here at once and...

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Are we Aliens in Our Own Planet?

1qazxsw2 @1qazxsw2 (512) • Singapore 2 Jun 07

Are we aliens ourselves on Planet Earth or aren't we? From a Discovery documentary - man evolved from space-microorganisms trapped in asteroids which came crashing down to earth couple of millions years back! That make us...

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veerdeep @veerdeep (40) • India 12 Apr 07

Hi Friends, The latest venture and upcoming programme of ISRO is on CHANDRAYAN.It will be sent in 2007/08 and after that I have read in Newspapers,that ISRO will be focused on Manned Mission to moon for the next decade thr is also...

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aries_0325 @aries_0325 (3060) • Philippines 11 Apr 07

Do asteroids have a maximum speed or do they keep accelerating?

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Getting Asteroids to look right on a TV

Slider2732 @Slider2732 (186) • United States 11 Mar 07

This is one of my current projects. I have a full sized Asteroids in the garage, missing 2 capacitors for the vector monitor and i don't have the original mainboard yet. So, i'm putting a PC in it and a 19" TV...then will...

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Somewhere out there is a killer asteroid with our name on it

lot2007 @lot2007 (1) • United States 17 Feb 07

Today there are more than 100 entries on NASA's list of asteroids that just might possible hit Earth, even if it's less than a one-in-a-million chance. One of them, called Apophis, currently has a risk rating of 1 in 45,000-serius...

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an asteroid to hit the earth?

Autisteek @Autisteek (326) • Philippines 6 Feb 07

anyone of you knows APOPHIS 99942? is is true that its very likely to hit the Erath on 2036? they said its about a mile wide... big enough to cause global cataclysm..

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Do You Remember Atari?

Brian @wolfie34 (26770) • United Kingdom 4 Jan 07

Did you used to have Atari? What was your favourite game I used to love Pac Man and Crystal Castles. It's all Nintendo now and Xbox, but Atari was always the best and I loved the joystick, I used to get blisters through playing it...

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Do u know what would happen to the earth when asteroids strike ?

navinshan @navinshan (3933) • Canada 16 Dec 06

I was watching the daily planet in discovery channel, when i heard that asteroids generally strike once in 5000 years, and moment it strikes, it would also fall in the ocean resulting in huge waves of tsunami with 5 metre tall...

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Ever heard of "sq222"? My fiance discover that asteroids names "sq222"

succed @succed (879) • United States 3 Dec 06

You can found it here or you type the word itself sq222, and tell me what you think about it.

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