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09 December 2011

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Space

 

Asteroid Impact Calculator

For high-grade worry warts there’s now

a way to determine just what will happen

if their community is hit by a space invader

 

Asteroid 2009 DD45 Passes Close to Earth

Near-Earth Objects are chunks of space rock that hurtle around our corner of the Universe sometimes undetected

 

Galaxies Collide

A vast cloud of gas, perhaps big enough to be a galaxy,

is colliding with the outer edges of the Milky Way

 

Moon of Saturn Has Salt Water

Space probe finds evidence of water on enceladus

 

Planetary Collision Possible

Astronomers have calculated that there is a

small chance that two of our neighbouring planets

might bump into our home – but not for a billion years