Tracked asteroid debris collected

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Bericht 26-03-'09, 03:10

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Tracked asteroid debris collected

Scientists collect remains from an asteroid that was tracked as it fell to Earth, offering a unique chance to study its make-up.


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Bericht 26-03-'09, 07:15

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The car-sized asteroid that exploded above the Nubian Desert last October was the first instance of an asteroid spotted in space before falling to Earth. Researchers rushed to collect the resulting meteorite debris, and a new study reports on this first-ever opportunity to calibrate telescopic observations of a known asteroid with laboratory analyses of its fragments.


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