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Scientists find secret comet in the asteroid belt — how many others are there?
The latest to be discovered, catalogued as 456P/PANSTARRS (meaning that it is the 456th periodic comet known, and was ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away that it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to reach flight ...
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It’s not that simple: Hubble has discovered a rare example of the three-body problem in the Kuiper belt
Astronomers using a telescope «Hubble»discovered that one of the asteroid systems in the Kuiper belt may not be a double, but a triple. If this discovery is confirmed, it will be only the second ...