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Video footage helps in search for meteorite
02/12/02
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Scientists at the University of Alberta are using video footage of a fireball in an attempt to calculate where the associated meteorite may have landed. (image courtesy of University of Alberta)
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Rosetta gets the green light from review board
22/11/02
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The Rosetta Mission Flight Readiness Review Board has given the green light after meeting on 13 November.
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Threat from smaller asteroids may be downgraded
21/11/02
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A report in Nature suggests that small asteroids may hit the earth less frequently than previously thought.
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First UK Impact Layer Discovered
14/11/02
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Researchers from Aberdeen University have discovered a 214 myr old impact layer in the west of England which they believe is from Manicouagan crater in Canada.
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Last Chance for Leonids
13/11/02
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November 18-19 may be the last chance for observers to witness the Leonid meteor storm for quite some time to come.
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Stardust Images of Asteroid Annefrank Released
05/11/02
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Stardust's images of asteroid Annefrank have been released, following its successful flyby of the asteroid on 2 November.
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Stardust Flyby Successful
04/11/02
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The NASA Stardust spacecraft has successfully performed a flyby of asteroid Annefrank in preparation for its encounter with Comet Wild 2.
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Comet-chaser Practices on Asteroid
01/11/02
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The Comet-chasing NASA Stardust spacecraft is due to fly-by asteroid AnneFrank on Nov 2.
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Success for Rosetta's transatlantic link
30/10/02
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With less than three months to go before Rosetta lifts off
from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, engineers from ESA,
Alenia and Astrium are working feverishly to ensure that
Europe's comet chaser is ready for launch in January 2003.
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Earth's Newly Discovered Companion
22/10/02
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An asteroid, discovered on 9 January 2002, is the first ever to be found in a companion orbit to Earth. Although the 100-metre diameter space rock shares our planet�s orbit, there is no chance of it colliding with us.
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Leonid Storm 2002
21/10/02
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NASA scientists predict up to 2000 meteors per hour for this year's Leonid meteors.
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OECD Workshop on NEOs
17/10/02
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The Global Science Forum of the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) are to hold a workshop on NEOs at the European Space Research Institute in Frascati, Italy, in January.
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Scientific Expedition on its way to Siberian Impact Site
17/10/02
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This week a scientific expedition will make for the site where, on September 24, a large celestial body fell in the taiga forest near the Bodaibo settlement in the Irkutsk region in East Siberia.
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U.S. Satellites See Russian Impact
13/10/02
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Measurements by U.S. satellites suggest that the fireball event over Siberia may not be as large as first thought.
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New Telescope Array for NEO Searches
10/10/02
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Astronomers from the University of Hawaii have received support from the U.S. Air Force to design a new array of telescopes to help search for NEOs.
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