The Spaceguard Centre & Observatory The Spaceguard Centre is the only organisation in the UK addressing the hazard of Near Earth Objects.NEOs are asteroids and comets that come close to, and sometimes collide with the Earth. Such impacts can have devastating effects – they have in the past and will in the future unless we use available technologies to prevent them. |
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| DARK, DANGEROUS ASTEROIDS FOUND LURKING NEAR EARTH An infrared space telescope has spotted several very dark asteroids that have been lurking unseen near Earth's orbit. |
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| HOLE NEW THEORY ON LIFE Microbes found in Arctic meteor crater could help point to life on Mars. |
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| SCIENCE TEAM SAYS GIANT METEORITE, NOT VOLCANOES, KILLED DINOSAURS A team of scientists, including Elisabetta Pierazzo, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, has concluded that a giant meteorite impact is still the best explanation for the disappearance of dinosaurs and many other species 65.5 million years ago. |
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