Posts Tagged ‘asteroids’

Pinpointing Date of Impact

Friday, February 8th, 2013
extinction, dinosaurs, impact, asteroids, comets, craters, paleontology, argon, dating, geochronology, uc berkeley,

New dating techniques have brought the impact and mass extinction events within a “gnat’s eyebrow.”

Asteroid Mining

Monday, February 4th, 2013
asteroids, mining

No longer just the stuff of science fiction…

Life Near the Asteroid Belt

Friday, November 9th, 2012
asteroidbelt

Two researchers hypothesize that an asteroid belt, just the right size and distance from its star, might be necessary for a star system to support a life-bearing planet.

Universe Update, January 2012

Friday, January 20th, 2012
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Coming at you from the desk of the Director of the Morrison Planetarium, hand-picked stories in space and astronomy news.

The Magnetized Moon

Thursday, November 10th, 2011
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Two new studies attempt to solve the mystery of the moon’s magnetism.

Comet Oceans

Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Hartley

Did Earth’s oceans arrive by comet?

Familiar Vesta

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
VestaSouthPole

NASA’s Dawn mission is revealing some familiar planet-like features on the large asteroid Vesta.

Nannoplankton Extinction

Monday, March 1st, 2010
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Non-dinosaur fossils reveal much about extinction event.

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