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Loading the cannon: how do asteroids from the belt between Jupiter and Mars get into near-Earth orbits? Sixty-five million years ago the Mesozoic era ended with a bang. An asteroid several miles across slammed into our planet, just off what is now the northern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The...(Continue Reading) Planet hunt strikes rock; hot kin of Earth orbits nearby star Moving closer to the goal of finding a planet just like home, astronomers this week announced their discovery of the closest known cousin to Earth--a ......(Continue Reading)Generating Animated Displays of Spacecraft Orbits Tool for Interactive Plotting, Bonification, and 3D Orbit Display (TIPSOD) is a computer program for generating interactive, animated, four-dimensional ......(Continue Reading)
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