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Parker School student tracks asteroid

MEDIA RELEASE Over 39 intense days this summer, Parker senior Lysha Matsunobu operated a telescope to take images of a near-earth asteroid, and wrote her own computer software to precisely measure its position and calculate its orbit around the sun. Matsunobu joined 35 other top science students from around the U.S. and the world for […]

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Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth. 

Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). Samples returned from the primitive surface of the near-Earth asteroid currently called (101955) 1999 RQ36 could hold clues to the origin of the solar system and organic molecules that may have seeded life on Earth.

NASA announces asteroid naming contest for students

Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). Samples returned from the primitive surface of the near-Earth asteroid currently called (101955) 1999 RQ36 could hold clues […]

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NASA's WISE raises doubt about dinosaur extinction

NASA’s WISE raises doubt about dinosaur extinction

MEDIA RELEASE Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission indicate the family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit, keeping the case open on one of Earth’s greatest mysteries. While scientists are confident a large asteroid crashed into Earth approximately 65 million years […]

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Two asteroids, several meters in diameter and in unrelated orbits, will pass within the moon's distance of Earth on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 7 & 8.

Two asteroids to pass near Earth Tuesday and Wednesday (Sept 7 & 8)

Two asteroids, several meters in diameter and in unrelated orbits, will pass within the moon’s distance of Earth on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 7 & 8.

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