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Wednesday: February 3, 2010

Popular Today:
Rare asteroid collision caught via Hubble space telescope.
Rare asteroid collision caught via Hubble space telescope.

Have a glimpse of what it looks like when two asteroids crash into each other in wide open deep space. Well, not so deep really - this event occured in an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Space @ 5:55 AM | Tags (8) | asteroid | collision | hubble | meteor | space | telescope | mars | jupiter |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 44 Clicks


Thursday: October 8, 2009

Popular Today:
NASA says not to worry about pesky asteroid that would've destroyed Earth.
NASA says not to worry about pesky asteroid that would've destroyed Earth.

According to NASA scientists, there is now just a slim chance said asteriod may hit Earth. The asteroid is about the size of two-and-a-half football fields.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Space @ 6:39 AM | Tags (8) | apophis | asteroid | demise | destruction | earth | nasa | science | space |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 20 Clicks


Wednesday: August 5, 2009

Popular Today:
If there's an asteroid coming, NASA will let you know via their asteroid collision blog.
If there's an asteroid coming, NASA will let you know via their asteroid collision blog.

I feel safer already. I read all of my catastrophic-Earth-destroying news from blogs anyway.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Space @ 11:23 AM | Tags (6) | asteroid | blog | collision | detection | nasa | space |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 12 Clicks


Monday: July 27, 2009

Popular Today:
Jupiter is Earth's favorite asteroid prevention unit.
Jupiter is Earth's favorite asteroid prevention unit.

...Jupiter’s overbearing gravity acts as a gravitational shield deflecting incoming space junk, mainly comets, away from the inner solar system where it could do for us what an asteroid apparently did for the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Posted to Weekdaily filed in Space @ 6:54 AM | Tags (6) | asteroid | earth | jupiter | meteor | prevention | space |  | Discuss (0) |  | del.icio.us | digg | facebook | stumbleupon | technorati | twitter | 9 Clicks


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