News on asteroids
- Infrared survey exposes Nnera-Earth asteroid threaths
- ESA invites amateur astronomers to asteroid-hunti
- Dawn uncovers mineraology of the asteroid Vesta
- Dawn sees new surface features on giant asteroid
- Near-miss asteroid will pass earth again in 2013
- Asteroid hits house in Oslo, Norway
- Space-environment of an asteroid
- Bus-sized asteroid passes Earth
- Vesta is most likely cold enough to contain water-ice
- First images of Vesta from low-orbit
- Fresh impact craters on asteroid Vesta
- Take a virtual 3D tour over asteroid Vesta
- High-school student doubles NEO-tracking accuracy
- Asteroid YU55 is just a pile of rocks
- More images of asteroid 2005 YU55
- New video of asteroid 2005 YU55
- Asteroid Lutetia: A rare surviver from the birth of the Earth
- First video of asteroid 2005YU55
- New images of asteroid passing Earth
- 400m asteroid passes Earth tuesday
- Asteroid Lutetia is a "failed planet"
- Large asteroid passing Earth nov. 4
- Researchers reconstruct asteroid impact
- Asteroid displays comet-like tail
- The mysteries of asteroid Minerva and its moons
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The ESA Rosetta probe make a close encounter with asteroid Lutetia on Saturday, july 10 2010
Astronomers announced today that the first Pan-STARRS telescope PS1 is fully operational. This innovative facility will be at the front line of Earth defense by searching for "killer" asteroids and comets. 
Far beyond the orbit of Neptune in a region known as the Kuiper Belt float thousands of icy, moon-sized bodies called Kuiper Belt objects. They are the remnants of the planetformation 4½ billion years ago. But unlike Earth, KBOs haven’t changed much over time and may hold clues about the early solar system. 
The Asteroid Explorer "HAYABUSA" successfully separated its capsule in the evening on June 13 and re-entered the atmosphere to complete its mission operation this morning