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Reports of fireball over Spain
06/01/04
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Spanish radio reports a fireball over northern Spain.
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UK-instrument has a close comet encounter
05/01/04
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NASA's space probe, Stardust, successfully flew through Comet Wild 2, collecting interstellar particles and dust on its way. One of the instruments on board, the Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), was built by a team which include UK-space scientist
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Stardust intercepts comet to gather samples
04/01/04
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Blasted by icy particles travelling six times faster than a rifle bullet - NASA's armoured Stardust probe flew within 240 kilometres of comet Wild 2 on Friday (2 January), capturing debris left over from the birth of our Solar System.
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Stardust ready for a Wild ride
29/12/03
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NASA's low-cost Stardust mission is set to pass within 150 kilometres of Comet Wild-2. As its passes close to the comet Stardust will sample cometary dust particles for collection and return to Earth.
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NASA Scientists Use Radar to Detect Asteroid Force
08/12/03
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NASA scientists have detected a tiny but theoretically important force acting on asteroids known as the Yarkovsky Effect.
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UK experts speak at NEO symposium in Greece
05/12/03
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A group of NEO experts from the UK were invited to speak at a recent symposium on the subject in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Could an asteroid have caused the "great dying"?
23/11/03
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Scientists have found new evidence that the greatest extinction in the Earth's history was triggered by an asteroid.
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Leonids 2003
18/11/03
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17-18 November is the peak of the Leonids meteor shower, but the Moon will make viewing difficult this year.
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Could hydrogen sulphide have caused the largest mass extinction
04/11/03
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Extinctions have occurred almost periodically through Earth’s history, wiping-out up to 95 per cent of life on the planet at the time. Although the cause of the largest extinction remains a mystery. A new study indicates hydrogen sulphide as t
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Re-discovered Hermes is identified as a binary asteroid
27/10/03
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A recently re-discovered asteroid, Hermes, that has eluded astronomers for decades turns out to be an unusual pair of objects travelling together through space. Reports planetary scientist using the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope.
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Hermes found
17/10/03
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After eluding astronomers for 66 years, the long-lost asteroid Hermes
has finally been retrieved.
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CONTOUR investigation board identifies causes for mission failure
15/10/03
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NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) Mishap Investigation Board has identified four possible causes for the failure of the comet-rendezvous mission launched in July 2002.
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Closest asteroid yet flies past the Earth
03/10/03
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An asteroid about the size of a small house passed just 88 000
kilometres from the Earth on Saturday 27 September. Making the event the
closest approach of a natural object ever recorded.
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Meteorite Injures 20 in India
29/09/03
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Reports that 20 people may have been injured by the fall of a meteorite in India await confirmation.
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Sunlight makes asteroids spin in strange ways
13/09/03
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A new study by researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University (Prague) has
found that sunlight can have surprisingly important effects on the spins
of small asteroids.
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