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NASA spacecraft sees world beyond Pluto as it prepares for historical flyby

NASA spacecraft sees world beyond Pluto as it prepares for historical...

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An artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering Ultima Thule (2014 MU69), a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto, on Jan. 1, 2019.  NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Steve Gribben NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to explore farther worlds than ever before when it flies past 2014…
Christmas ‘Hippo’ Asteroid Is Buzzing Earth, Its Closest Flyby in 400 Years

Christmas ‘Hippo’ Asteroid Is Buzzing Earth, Its Closest Flyby in 400...

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These three radar images of hippo-shaped near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 were captured between Dec. 15-17, 2018 using NASA's Goldstone antenna, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR/NSF/GBO If only a hippopotamus will do this Christmas, Santa has the space rock for you. A small asteroid will…
Hyper comet Wirtanen to display throughout traditionally close flyby

Hyper comet Wirtanen to display throughout traditionally close flyby

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Comet Wirtanen shows up in this three-color image from an earlier pass by the sun in 2012. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy The comet 46P/Wirtanen was discovered in 1948, but this could be the best year to get a good look at the small, hyperactive space ball of rock, ice and debris.  That's because when…

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