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Near Earth Objects

• NASA's WISE Eye Spies Near-Earth Asteroid January 25, 2010
  NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light. […]
• Asteroid To Fly By Earth Wednesday Is a Natural January 12, 2010
  Asteroid 2010 AL30 will fly safely past Earth on Jan. 13. There are those who say it may be a used rocket stage. Not so fast says NASA's Near-Earth Object Office. […]
• Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required December 9, 2009
  Bundle up and get ready to watch a fiery lightshow stirred up by dead comets in Earth's upper atmosphere during the cold of winter in the dead of night. […]
• NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth October 7, 2009
  Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. […]
• Asteroid Juno Grabs the Spotlight September 16, 2009
  Toward the end of September, the sun will turn a spotlight on the asteroid Juno, giving that bulky lump of rock a rare featured cameo in the night sky. […]
• Jumping Asteroids August 18, 2009
  How our solar system was formed has fascinated scientists and laymen alike for -- well, for a really, really long time. New research may have answered a piece to the puzzle - how big were the first planetesimals? […]
• On the JPL Blog: Comets and Life On Earth August 17, 2009
  With the recent discovery of the amino acid glycine in the comet dust samples returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft, it is becoming a bit more clear how life may have originated on Earth. […]
• NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet August 17, 2009
  NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. […]
• New Near-Earth Object Report from National Research Council August 12, 2009
  In the 2005 NASA Authorization Act, Congress mandated that by 2020 NASA should be capable of detecting at least 90 percent of objects over 140 meters wide in the vicinity of Earth’s orbit. […]
• Meteorite Found on Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past August 10, 2009
  NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. […]