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Asteroid 2012 BX34 skimmed past Earth today, January 27, 2012, with closest approach at about 15:25 UT, and it passed only about 59,044 km (36,750 miles) or about ~0.2 lunar distance (or 0.0004 AU) above the Earth’s surface. It was [...]
Asteroid BX34 2012 Skims Past Earth

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Quadrantids Meteor Shower – Most meteor showers that occurred in 2011 could not be seen due to bright moonlight, but that won’t be the case for the Quadrantids meteor shower, the first of 2012 coming to a sky near you. [...]
Quadrantids Meteor To Shower Visible Early Wednesday

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New Planet Discovered 2011 – NASA has discovered a new orbiting planet just outside our solar system, making 2011 an important year in space and astronomy. They are known as Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, but are too close to the sun [...]
New For 2011: ‘Earth-Sized’ Alien Planet Discovered

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Missing Moon Rocks – Missing or misplaced are 500 pieces of moon dust and rocks that NASA brought back from their lunar missions to Earth. The space agency’s inspector general calls for a better inventory system. Apparently, the catalog controls [...]
Missing Moon Rocks At NASA Discovered During Audit

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Mars Water – The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is on its way to find water on the red planet, scheduled for a landing in August. In the meantime, the Opportunity rover, which has been operating for nearly eight years, is [...]
Mars Provides More Evidence Of Water From Gypsum Deposit (PHOTO)

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