Asteroid

Nasa lays out wild plan to corral asteroid

7 Apr 2013

Obama administration officials said the operation had the potential to jump-start a human exploration programme that had floundered since the 2011 retirement of the space shuttle. The White House...

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Wary earthlings watch sky in meteor's wake

17 Feb 2013

Scientists at the US space agency Nasa estimated that the amount of energy released in the atmosphere above the Chelyabinsk region in the Ural Mountains was about 30 times greater than the force...

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Asteroid to whizz past Earth today

15 Feb 2013

Nasa is keeping close tabs on a sizable asteroid set to whizz past our planet in what the US space agency says is the closest fly-by ever predicted for such a large object.

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Asteroid to narrowly miss Earth, scientists say

8 Feb 2013

Hold on to your hats: an asteroid will zoom within spitting distance of Earth next week, in what Nasa said on Thursday is the closest flyby every predicted for an object this large.

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Astronomers and amateurs brace for a year of comets and close asteroids

7 Jan 2013

Astronomers are gearing for thrills this year when earth gets buzzed by two rogue asteroids and two comets.

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Award honours the find of a universal lifetime

10 Jun 2012

One night, aged seven, David Jewitt was riding along a dark street in England when he looked up at the sky, saw several meteors and thought: 'It's absolutely incredible.'

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Opinion

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City University motto inspires a celestial first

A university motto is being used to name asteroids for the first time.

A recently discovered asteroid has been named 'Bowenyueli', pinyin for the Chinese University motto that...

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The asteroid missed ... but a hit would have wiped out HK

An asteroid missed the Earth on Tuesday. It was large. In astronomical terms, it was also close at just 1.4 times the distance of the moon. Had it hit Hong Kong, there would be no city left and it...

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DOCUMENTARY WATCH

Fireballs From Space

World, 9pm

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Asteroids offer many surprises

What is the relationship between asteroids and the extinction of the dinosaurs? Will asteroids affect civilisation on Earth? Hunting Asteroids, which is now showing at the Hong Kong Space Museum,...

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Asteroid show hits museum

With asteroid disaster movies hitting local cinemas, the new Sky Show Hunting Asteroids offers a chance to find out more about these travelling space rocks.

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Asteroid named after HK astronomer

An asteroid has been named after a 66-year-old former Hong Kong stargazer.

Asteroid Liu was named in honour of Joseph Liu Hing-chai, founder and first curator of the Hong Kong Space...

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