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Panel Recommends Extended NEO Search
12/07/02
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The Space Roundtable, which took place in Washington on Wednesday, recommended that NEO searches should be extended to smaller asteroids and comets.
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CONTOUR's Flight Plans Announced
12/07/02
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NASA have announced the schedule for CONTOUR's in flight operations.
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New Deep Space Network Dish
11/07/02
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A new radio dish being built in Spain is to help NASA's Deep Space Network communicate with space probes.
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Fireball May Have Caused Plane Alert
08/07/02
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Ukrainian officials suggest a fireball, due to the atmospheric entry of a small meteoroid, explains the mid-air detonation witnessed by an Israeli pilot.
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Heaviest Ammonia in Space
06/07/02
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Astronomers have discovered the heaviest form of ammonia in a giant molecular cloud.
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Rosetta One Step Closer to Launch
05/07/02
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The European Space Agency Rosetta spacecraft has passed the latest phase of its ground testing in preparation for launch in Jan, 2003.
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Morrison on NEOs
04/07/02
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David Morrison of NASA Ames Center talks to space.com about the search for Near Earth Objects.
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Edgar Wilson Award for Comets
03/07/02
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The Edgar Wilson Awards for the discovery of comets by amateurs around the world has been announced by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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CONTOUR Away
03/07/02
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NASA's CONTOUR mission to comets Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 was successfully launched this morning at 2.47 EDT from Cape Canaveral.
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CONTOUR Cleared For Launch
02/07/02
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The NASA CONTOUR mission has been cleared for launch on July 3 now that dust has been cleaned off from its solar arrays.
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NASA Chooses Ion Drive Team
01/07/02
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NASA have announced the team who are to develop the next generation ion drive.
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Moon Rock Legal Battle
01/07/02
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The fate of a Moon rock presented to the government of Honduras is the centre of a legal battle in the U.S.A.
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CONTOUR Launch Postponed
29/06/02
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NASA's CONTOUR mission to comets Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has been delayed until at least July 3, following concerns over its top solar array panel.
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Astronomers Search for Vulcanoids
25/06/02
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Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute have been searching for asteroids close to the Sun.
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Where Did the Comets Go?
24/06/02
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Research suggests that many new comets may be completely destroyed by break up after only a few orbits of the Sun.
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