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That Asteroid's Name is Bennu!

Nine-year-old contest winner Mike Puzio of North Carolina named the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission
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White House Science Fair

Celebrating science and meeting the innovators of the future
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Next Big Dish Takes Flight

Watch via webcam on Thursday and Friday as the 34-meter dish of DSS-35 gets lifted into place in Canberra
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Save our Science

Write Congress and show your support for Planetary Science.
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Saving Earth!

Killer Asteroid Tabletop Simulation Exercise at the 2013 Planetary Defense Conference
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An Amazing Evening for Planetary Defense 2013/04/23
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LPSC 2013: Do we have a meteorite from Mercury? 2013/03/21
Before yesterday, my answer to this question would be "no." Now my answer is "probably." ...
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What We Know About the Russian Meteor Event [UPDATED] 2013/02/15
Preliminary estimates show that the meteoroid was 15 meters wide and weighed roughly 8000 tons. ...
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