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Celebrating Apophis Day
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[Huffington Post] - As Phil Plait narrated in his engaging and funny TEDx talk "How to defend Earth from asteroids," current best guess estimates say Apophis will likely miss the Earth in April of But it will be a cosmic near death experience, something like a
Defending Spaceship Earth
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[Huffington Post (blog)] - In this inspiring talk, Phil Plait explains how we can defend ourselves from asteroids and sheds some light on the consequences earlier asteroids and meteors have had. When the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, saw a huge asteroid shooting across the
How to Defend Earth From Asteroids
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[Huffington Post (blog)] - Phil Plait. Still, some of these cosmic bullets are on orbits that make them very tough to spot. They stay near the Sun, making them hard to observe from the ground. There are two solutions to that. One is to build a spacecraft that travels in a path
Google News: Winter Solstice 2012: Meteor Shower Likely, 0% Chance Of Apocalypse
[International Business Times] - astronomer Phil Plait wrote for Slate on Friday. “Every day for the next six months, we'll slowly round the Sun and have our axis point more toward it. The Sun will get higher, the days longer and warmer.” As we progress towards the summer solstice, we
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