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Ernesto Guido

Ice Confirmed On An Asteroid - 0 views

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    Frozen water leaves its signature over the entire surface of the asteroid 24 Themis
Ernesto Guido

Asteroid isn't just a dry heap of rubble - 0 views

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    Two teams have found evidence of water ice on the asteroid 24 Themis; the find suggests asteroids could have delivered some water to the early Earth
Ernesto Guido

NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth - 0 views

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    Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.
Ernesto Guido

Fireball event of September 25, 2009 - 0 views

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    At 9:03 pm on Friday night September 25, 2009 (01:03 UT Sept 26) seven all-sky cameras of Western's Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) recorded a brilliant fireball in the evening sky over the west end of Lake Ontario.
Ernesto Guido

Comet 10P/Tempel 2's Nucleus Rotation Determined to Within 10 Seconds - 0 views

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    Lowell astronomer David Schleicher led a team that made the best measurement of the comet's rotation period, showing that the rotation period of Tempel 2's nucleus has lengthened, or the comet has slowed down, by about 10 seconds every five years.
Ernesto Guido

Utah Fireball - 18 November 2009 - 0 views

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    On Nov. 18, just after midnight local time (MST) a great fireball was seen over parts of the western United States
Ernesto Guido

Dinosaur-killing impact set Earth to broil, not burn - 0 views

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    The asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago didn't incinerate life on our planet's surface - it just broiled it, a new study suggests. The work resolves nagging questions about a theory that the impact triggered deadly wildfires around the world, but it also raises new questions about just what led to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Ernesto Guido

South African Fireball - November 21 - 0 views

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    After the Utah Fireball on Nov. 18, another bright fireball has been seen over South Africa aroud 11pm local time of Nov. 21, 2009. The meteor was spotted by dozens people as it passed over Johannesburg and Pretoria in Kauteng province on Saturday.
Ernesto Guido

Stardust-NExT and Comet 9P/Tempel - 0 views

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    In the next few hours, precisely on February 14 at 20:48 PST (February 15 at 04:48 UTC), the Stardust spacecraft will have a flyby with the comet 9P/Tempel (also known as comet Tempel 1).
Ernesto Guido

2011 CQ1 - Very Close Approach - 0 views

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    The newly discovered object, officially designated 2011 CQ1, will make a close Earth approach today February 04, 2011 around 19:40UT at ~0.03(LD)/0.00008(AU) or 11855 km.
Ernesto Guido

Observations of NEOs 2011 BB45 & 2011 BA45 - 0 views

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    In the past few days a number of faint objects discovered by Pan-STARRS (PS1 System - Haleakala - mpc code F51) have been added to the Neo Confirmation Page on the MPC website.
Ernesto Guido

Comet C/2009 R1 (McNaught) - Animation & Images - 0 views

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    The comet is now around magnitude 7.5 and it will be a nice binocular object. Throughout this apparition it will be low in the east or northeast when dawn begins to brighten.
Ernesto Guido

Remanzacco Observatory - Comets & Neo: New Comet: C/2010 G2 (HILL) - 0 views

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    IAU circular No. 9134, issued on 2010, April 11, announces the discovery by R. E. Hill of a new comet on Apr. 10, 2010, in the course of the Catalina Sky Survey.
Ernesto Guido

Dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth - 0 views

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    NASA's WISE mission has spotted 16 near-Earth objects that had previously been hidden in the dark
Ernesto Guido

NASA - Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Trailing Debris - 0 views

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    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.
Ernesto Guido

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen - 0 views

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    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune.
Ernesto Guido

NASA - Hubble Sees Suspected Asteroid Collision - 0 views

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    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before.
Ernesto Guido

New Sungrazing Comet - 0 views

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    After the bright sungrazing comet discovered on January 02, 2010 on images taken by NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft, a new comet is plunging toward the sun. On first looking this comet is ~1-1.5 mag fainter than the previous one from early January.
Ernesto Guido

New Comet Discovery: C/2010 A4 (SIDING SPRING) - 0 views

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    AU circular No. 9107, issued on 2010, Jan. 14, announces the discovery by G. J. Garradd of an apparently asteroidal object, on CCD images taken with the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope in the course of the Siding Spring Survey.
Ernesto Guido

NEO 2010 AL30 Close Approach - 0 views

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    MPEC 2010-A59 announces the discovery by Linear survey of a new object designated 2010 AL30. According to the preliminary orbit, 2010 AL30 will approach Earth at about 0.34 lunar-distance at 1248 UTC on 13 Jan. 2010 at magnitude 14 and it will be moving at about 10 arcsec/sec.
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