NASA spacecraft nearing mysterious dwarf planet Ceres
“I’m just delighted that Dawn is now on the doorstep of Ceres,” Jim Green, director of NASA’s planetary science division said in a news conference on Monday. Ceres was discovered…
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Brilliant Fireball Lights Up The Night Sky In Four States
Skywatchers in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas were treated to quite a show on Tuesday when a brilliant fireball lit up the early-morning sky. – The fireball flared brighter than the…
How to catch a glimpse of asteroid flyby
“Close,” of course, is relative. The asteroid, called 2004 BL86 will come about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Earth, or about three times as far away as the moon…
Big asteroid to fly by Earth Monday
The asteroid is called 2004 BL86. It’ll come about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Earth, or about three times as far away as the moon. You’re wondering, doesn’t this…