From AGU: Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact may have cooled Earth’s climate more than previously thought WASHINGTON D.C. — The Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs likely released far more…
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NASA discovers ancient ocean on Asteroid Ceres
Via the AGU: WASHINGTON D.C. — Minerals containing water are widespread on Ceres, suggesting the dwarf planet may have had a global ocean in the past. What became of that…
Asteroid to buzz Earth this week
Four years ago, a house-sized asteroid tore through the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded. Shock waves shattered windows and knocked down onlookers as fragments of the disintegrating space rock…
Volcanoes, asteroid impact, drove ancient climate related extinctions
Warming pulses in ancient climate record link volcanoes, asteroid impact and dinosaur-killing mass ANN ARBOR — A new reconstruction of Antarctic ocean temperatures around the time the dinosaurs disappeared 66…
City busting Earth Grazer Asteroid imminent near miss – just discovered 2 weeks ago
From the “bigger worries than global warming” department: Guest essay by Eric Worrall Yet another indication that Asteroids are a far more serious threat than climate change. NASA scientists have…
Gigantic asteroid near miss coming this Thursday
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Express reports that a colossal one mile wide asteroid will brush past the Earth this Thursday, with a closest approach of 3 million kilometres…
World's largest asteroid impacts found in central Australia
A 400 kilometer-wide impact zone from a huge meteorite that broke in two moments before it slammed into the Earth has been found in Central Australia From Australian National University:…
Bigger problems than global warming – NASA discovers 8 new dangerous near Earth asteroids
Guest essay by Eric Worrall- In 2013, NASA decided to take time out from creating spectacularly useless climate models, and reactivated their Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer programme. The result…
NASA wants to lasso an asteroid
PASADENA (JPL) – NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study…
Small asteroid slams into Mars, impact captured by orbiter
A reminder that the universe isn’t always friendly. A spectacular image of impact crater follows. From NASA JPL today.
Asteroid Diversity Points to a 'Snow Globe' Solar System
As of today, there are currently 1453 known potentially hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth and cause a real planetary catastrophe. Given the new diverse “snow globe” model of our…
Asteroid likely caused global fires, which led to extinctions
From the AGU: Global fires after the asteroid impact probably caused the K-Pg extinction About 66 million years ago a mountain-sized asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan in Mexico…
Why we don't take CNN or Bill Nye seriously anymore: asteroid> meteor> global warming
Paul Westhaver writes in Tips and Notes: CNN talking empty head (Feyerick) asks Bill Nye if approaching Meteor was a result of global warming…. but Bill’s response is oddly disquieting.
Asteroid blows past Earth in near miss
From ChicoEr.com Flying close enough to Earth that in astronomic terms one could feel the breeze as it passed, a small asteroid flashed by just after midnight today. NASA reported…
Asteroid near miss – the movie
There’s no danger that the asteroid will strike Earth, but Sky and Telescope reports that if it did, it would “deliver a kinetic-energy punch equivalent to several thousand megatons of…
Oil company geologist helps find new asteroid crater
From Australian National University Sciencewise Magazine A big impact on climate: Examining a new asteroid crater found in the Timor Sea As new land-based oil deposits become increasingly scarce, oil…
Close call – Asteroid near miss for Earth yesterday
From NASA’s Spaceweather.com and NASA JPL Twitter feed. It only takes one missed space rock to ruin your day. On Friday November 6th at 2132 UT (16:32/ 4:32PM EST) asteroid…
Asteroid explosion over Indonesia
From NASA’s Spaceweather.com INDONESIAN ASTEROID: Picture this: A 10-meter wide asteroid hits Earth and explodes in the atmosphere with the energy of a small atomic bomb. Frightened by thunderous sounds…
Aussie astronomers call for more funding in wake of asteroid explosion
From ABC News, Australia Astronomers are calling for more funding to watch southern skies, after an asteroid took sky-gazers by surprise and entered the earth’s atmosphere over Africa yesterday. Yesterday…
Sudan hit by Apollo Asteroid
Posted by Dee Norris A recently discovered Apollo Asteroid, 2008 TC3, exploded over Sudan at about 1046 EDT on October 7, 2008. 2008 TC3 was discovered on Monday by an…
Asteroid flyby tonight
Newly discovered asteroid 2007 HA is flying past Earth today about 2.5 million kilometers away. It’s big (300 meters wide), bright (13th magnitude), and an easy target for large backyard…
U.N. Urged to Take On Asteroid Threat
From the France surrenders just to be safe department : Some “experts” think we should put the U.N. in charge of our space defense against large meteors or asteroids that…
The Great Barrier Reef could Die This Year?
Adam Gottschalk, a freshly minted Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics, lamenting the lack of urgency in addressing climate change.
Al Gore’s Tiresome Crusade: So Long, So Wrong
From the late 1980s until today, Al Gore is singing the same tune. Here is a sampling of his otherworldly statements.
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