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In what apparently is the first confirmation for astronomers about the supposed aftermath of an asteroid collision in space, the Hubble Space Telescope has [...]

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WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. The images show a bizarre X-shaped object at [...]

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(A competing explanation suggests it might be due to solar radiation.) A second paper on the debris trail lines up behind the asteroid collision scenario. [...]

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What happens when astronomers atop Haleakala discover an asteroid on a collision course with Earth? A big one could devastate the globe, a small one (100 [...]

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ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - For years, astronomers have been on the lookout for large asteroids on a collision course with Earth. Now, a scientist at Sandia [...]

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WASHINGTON: Researchers have said that bombing Earth-bound asteroids may be a viable option to avoid a collision. And other scientists are suggesting that, [...]

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During their journey around the Sun, time and again such asteroids collide. Due to the immense expansion of the asteroid belt, most of these incidents are [...]

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Using this in their computer modeling of the collision, Dr Snodgrass and colleagues found that the other asteroid was probably tiny, originally just a few [...]

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(NASA / Goddard / MIT / Brown) Share Back to slideshow navigation A fleeting bright dot on each of these images of Jupiter marks a small comet or asteroid [...]

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“If you look at the literature on 'recent' asteroid collisions, they tend to talk about things occurring in the past million years or so – that's recent on [...]

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Fortunately, even if it were on a collision course, it's size, seven meters (or about 20 feet), is hardly threatening. Astronomers estimate that an asteroid [...]

2 Feb 2010 The X marks the spot of a suspected head-on collision between two asteroids imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope's new-and-improved Wide [...]

13 Oct 2010 The debris cloud of asteroid P/2010 A2 after it smashed into a smaller space rock is expanding slower than expected, pushing estimates of [...]

Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with [...]

13 Oct 2010 Alas, the image above is not marking alien pirate treasure in space - for the first time, the aftermath of a collision between two asteroids [...]

13 Oct 2010 NASA's Hubble space telescope has captured what scientists believe are the first images of a collision between two asteroids, the US space [...]

24 Jul 2002 A newly discovered asteroid could strike Earth in 2019 - the most Space rock 'on collision course'. 2002 NT7, Courtesy Klet Observatory [...]

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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. [...]

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Jewitt believes P/2010 A2 is the result of a collision between a large asteroid and smaller asteroid traveling more than 3 miles per second, writes Wired.com. "The energy," Jewitt said, "would have been comparable to a small atomic bomb [...]

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Schweickart is Chairman of the Board of the B612 Foundation, a non-profit private foundation that supports the development and testing of a spaceflight concept to protect the Earth from future asteroid impacts, and he says we have the Right now, none pose a credible threat of a collision with Earth for the foreseeable future. But the discovery rate of the much more numerous smaller NEOs, — which represent a regional or local impact hazard — “will soon confront us with [...]

At first, world chatter thought it was an unknown, possibly alien, object or a rogue comet. But close ups of an X-shaped objected spotted by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope between January and May 2010 showed the object P/2010 A2, an X-shaped objected created by two colliding asteroids. [...]

Astronomers peer into the past. They observe galaxies forming millions of years after the fact. They hunt for traces of water that flowed eons ago on moons and other planets. [...]

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Although the Hubble images give compelling evidence for an asteroid collision, Jewitt says he still does not have enough information to rule out other explanations for the peculiar object. In one such scenario, a small asteroid's [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. [...]