If there’s one news story that had the world talking this month, it was that meteorite that exploded over Russia. There have easily been over 100 videos uploaded to YouTube showing different angles and vantage points from this unique celestial event. But what really caused the explosion? NASA is here to explain the science behind [...]
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Remember asteroid 2012 DA14, the one we previously told you about that will give Earth a close shave on Feb. 15? The big rock might just be worth about $195B! The 150-foot-wide asteroid will pass within 17,200 miles of our lovely little planet, making it the closest approach (that scientists have known about) ever. The [...]
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Whew! That was close. Remember all that talk about Asteroid 2011 AG5 and how it might actually hit Earth in the year 2040? Looks like we dodged a bullet. New observations now seem to indicate that the asteroid, which is about 460 feet wide, will pass harmlessly by Earth in 28 years. When it was [...]
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Friday is the big day. We hope you didn’t make plans for this weekend. As you all know by now, many people believe the Mayan calendar indicates that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. Mario and Fafa of Glove and Boots fame are here to tell you to relax. It [...]
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It’s been sixty years since the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, and thousands more since they were originally written. Today, though, Israel put images of the historical documents online via a special partnership with Google, according to HeraldNet.com. The Google Dead Sea Scrolls Library contains the Book of Deuteronomy, which features a second listing of [...]
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The calendar may read December 18, 2012, but the end of the world is still several thousand years away, say the Mayans of today. It seems that the idea that the world will end on December 21, 2012 did not come from their ancestors, but rather from their government and tour groups looking to make [...]
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Some amazing footage has emerged of a near-Earth asteroid that “buzzed the tower” last week. Asteroid 4179 Toutatis tumbled through space on its flyby of our home planet last week. The new video, which is about 40 seconds long, combines 64 radar images taken Wednesday and Thursday (December 12 and 13) by NASA’s Deep Space [...]
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It’s mid-December which means it’s time for one of the best meteor showers of the year…and this year there might be an added bonus as well. The 2012 Geminid Meteor Shower peaks the night of December 13, and the prime viewing areas will be in the Mid-Atlantic states and in the Northeast. “The Geminids are [...]
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