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• Space Race Back On

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  We can’t let the Russians get to Apophis first.
  6 hours ago

• Namco Museum Battle Collection

  
  GConsole.info — Authority: 148
  Collection of arcade classics for Sony’s PlayStation PortableFor PlayStation Portable, capable of WiFi play against other PSPsPac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Rally-X, New Rally-X and Dig DugPlus 10 U.S. exclusives including Xevious, Bosconian, Mappy, Tower of Druaga, Dragon Buster, Dig Dug 2 and moreAn ...
  7 hours ago

• Russia May Send Spacecraft To Knock Away Asteroid

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 465
  Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the countrys space agency said Wednesday. -- Anatoly Perminov said the space agency will hold a meeting soon to assess a mission to Apophis, telling Golos Rossii radio ...
  8 hours ago

• NASA Considers Venus Lander, Asteroid and Lunar Sample Return Missions

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 446
  From top to bottom, pictured (not to scale) are the moon, Venus, and an asteroid. These three celestial bodies from our solar system are possible candidates for NASAs next space venture. NASA PRESS RELEASE NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency’s next space venture to another celestial ...
  10 hours ago

• Perminov: Apophis, You’re Going Down!

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 446
  In comments that baffled many experts worldwide, Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov said his agency is considering a project to deflect the asteroid Apophis, which has a 1-in-233,000 chance of hitting the Earth in 2036. RIA Novosti reports: “A scientist recently told me an interesting thing about the path [of an ...
  10 hours ago

• Russians to Meet About Asteroid

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Russia’s top space researchers will hold a meeting to plan a mission to deflect 99942 Apophis, an asteroid that could conceivably hit the Earth two decades from now.
  12 hours ago

• NYT > World: Russians to Meet About Asteroid

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Russia’s top space researchers will hold a meeting to plan a mission to deflect 99942 Apophis, an asteroid that could conceivably hit the Earth two decades from now.
  13 hours ago

• A monstrous weenie

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 480
  The Daily Beast on monsters and weenies , and guess who qualified on both counts? Call me an optimist, but more and more it seems like some of the media is beginning to turn not just on the overbearing Republicans, but on their arrogant corporatist Democratic enablers, as well. Let’s hope this is a trend. ...
  13 hours ago

• Russia Is Planning To Build A Spaceship To Prevent Asteroid Apophis From Hitting Earth

  
  Monster Island News — Authority: 126
  Written By: Ken Hulsey Source: Associated Press I was fully prepared to sit down today and write one of my typical articles about monster movies and alternate cinema. That was until I opened up my Yahoo home page and read the headline "Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid". It was at that point that my ...
  14 hours ago

• NASA Narrows Robotic Missions to Three Contenders

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 758
  NASA on Tuesday selected three candidates to be the agency’s next cheap, robotic exploration mission. Depending on which wins, a probe will head for Venus, the moon, or a near-earth object no later than 2018. The latter two missions would include the return of samples, while the Venusian lander would test the ...
  15 hours ago

• Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid

  
  SciNewsBlog — Authority: 139
  Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid MOSCOW – Russias space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of earth impact, even though U.S. scientists say such a scenario is unlikely. Anatoly Perminov told Golos Rossii radio the ...
  15 hours ago

• Russia May Head Mission to Deflect Asteroid Apophis

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 652
  Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid and prevent a possible collision with Earth , according to a radio interview by the head of the countrys space agency. Anatoly Perminov said the space agency will hold a meeting soon to assess a mission to Apophis, and said NASA, ESA, the ...
  17 hours ago

• Apophis; the real Armageddon?

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 443
  Almost exactly a year ago, I posted a kinda wise ass piece  on Apophis, a 1,000 feet wide, 50 million ton asteroid.  Discovered in 2004, its hurling towards earth and has a 1 in 44,000 chance of colliding with earth in 2036.  NASA has been watching the path of Apophis fairly carefully, as you might imagine, and ...
  17 hours ago

• Russia Developing a Secret Plan to Divert a Non-Threatening Asteroid

  
  80beats — Authority: 634
  You may remember back in October that NASA scientists downgraded the threat of the asteroid Apophis slamming into the Earth from remote to even more remote. Thanks to refined computation of the object’s motion, astronomers changed their estimate of the chances for a 2036 collision from an already unlikely 1 in ...
  19 hours ago

• Russia may send spacecraft to knock away…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid. Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the country’s space agency said Wednesday. That’s cool. a
  21 hours ago

• Quick App: Presteroids

  
  PreCentral.net — Authority: 674
  I wanted to point out a nice little app that we approved earlier today in our Homebrew App Gallery : Presteroids . It comes to us by way of kayahr , who humbly describes it as "an early alpha version." I humbly describe it as a fun and somewhat addictive asteroids app that I completely stink at playing. If this is ...
  2 days ago

• toDwI’ma’ qoS yItIvqu’!: Nota Bene #2009-46

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 512
  “To be truly free, and truly to appreciate its freedom, a society must be literate.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “The class war is over— working people lost ” … “We’ve had issues with them hiding the mail ” … “Whatever happened to kids spending ...
  5 days ago

• Indian scientist examines possibility of life on planets other than Earth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  New Delhi, December 25 (ANI): A recent article by Ashwini Kumar Lal, from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, has examined the possibility of life on planets and satellites within our solar system and beyond.His article, titled, ‘Searching for Life on Habitable Planets and ...
  6 days ago

• The best barriers are planet sized ones

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 141
  According to recent simulations, the idea of making a life for yourself on a planet closer to the center of the galaxy has hit a natural barrier as well as a (lack-of-way-to-get-there-and-survive) technological one: Too many comets. Not enough ho’s! No! No! Sit down Ludacris. We’re not going into a song, okay? ...
  1 week ago

• The Absolute Best Songs of 2009

  
  Pretty Much Amazing! — Authority: 569
  Artwork by the talented and generous Adam Sarpalius . The final list is here. We have been working on this Absolute (sarcasm) Best Songs of 2009 list all year, updating it at the end of every quarter. I was only going to have PMA’s Top 50 of the year listen, but I couldn’t narrow it down beyond the top 75. ...
  1 week ago

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