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Asteroids cause dozens of nuclear-scale blasts in Earth's atmosphere
22 Apr 2014:Many explosions stronger than Hiroshima bomb but most occur too high above ground to cause serious damage
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11 Sep 2014:Alan Pickup on why claims that a meteorite struck in Nicaragua this week do not ring true
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28 Jul 2014:
Edinburgh University experts say asteroid hit Earth at a time when ecosystems had been weakened by a loss of biodiversity
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4 Jul 2014:
Kate Ravilious on how Earth's surface jigsaw of tectonic plates may have been triggered by a cataclysmic asteroid impact
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16 May 2014: After swingeing budget cuts at Nasa, a loose agglomeration of private companies – including Bigelow Aerospace and Elon Musk's SpaceX – have revived the dormant dream of colonising other worlds Jessa Gamble reports
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22 Apr 2014:
Many explosions stronger than Hiroshima bomb but most occur too high above ground to cause serious damage
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10 Mar 2014:
Space agency tells SXSW how it’s using crowdsourcing and prizes to protect the planet. By Stuart Dredge
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6 Mar 2014: Nasa's Hubble telescope caught asteroid P/2013 R3 splintering into ten pieces over three months
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18 Feb 2014:
Space rock to pass by Earth 2.1m miles away, but astronomers say 270-metre object poses significant danger in case of impact
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22 Dec 2013:
Do you know your HeLa cells from your Higgs boson? Take our annual test and find out
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19 Dec 2013:
The five-year mission will generate a 3-D map of the Milky Way and warn us of approaching asteroids
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13 Dec 2013:
Stuart Clark: Nasa says the Geminids will be the most intense meteor shower of the year – and almost everyone can see it
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28 Nov 2013:
The dinosaurs didn't get on with them, but there are things we can do to avert an impact
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18 Oct 2013:
Stuart Clark: Asteroid 2013 TV135 has a 99.998% chance of missing Earth in 2032
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26 Aug 2013:
Editorial: The plan to send a manned mission into space to capture a 500-ton asteroid is variously daring, imaginative or crazy, or perhaps all three
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4 Jul 2013:
Massachusetts scientist Dr Galache successfully applies for asteroid name change after meeting author at book signing
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