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Are We 'A Sitting Duck' For Asteroids

CBC | Posted 01.09.2012 | Canada
Read More: Asteroid Detection, Natural Disasters, Asteroids, Astronomy, Asteroid Defence, Outer Space, Asteroid Hitting Earth, yu55, Cbc, Canada News

The massive coal black asteroid 2005 YU55 zoomed by Earth this week in harmless fashion, but interest groups say the relatively close enc...

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'The Big Splat': Whatever Happened To Earth's Other Moon?

CP | Posted 10.03.2011 | Canada
Read More: Two Moons, Moon, Second Moon, Erik Asphaug, Martin Jutzi, Dual Moons, Astronomy, University of California Santa Cruz, Canada News

Earth once had two moons, until one of them made the fatal mistake of smacking into its big sister in what is being called the "big splat," some astro...

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No Moon For You!

CP | Posted 08.11.2011 | Canada
Read More: Lunar Eclipse, Astronomy, Space, Eclipse, Science, North America, Moon, 2011-Eclipse, Canada, Canada News

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The year's first total eclipse of the moon will occur next week, and it will be an unusually long one. But the eclipse Wednes...

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