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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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DC-X
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