meteors
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A Huge Asteroid Exploded Above Earth, And You Totally Missed It
The second-largest asteroid to hit Earth in the last 30 years went undetected, until now.
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Meteorite Hunters Find Remains Of Last Month’s Botswana Fireball
Last month, a fireball lit up the skies over Botswana just hours after scientists first spotted the space rock hurtling toward Earth. Researchers from Botswana, South Africa, Finland and the United States have now found pieces of the meteorite.
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Incoming Meteors Explode From The Inside, Simulations Suggest
Tomorrow night (weather permitting), you might be able to peer up to the sky and see some of the year’s brightest meteors, the Geminids. And now, thanks to new research, you may have a better understanding of why they sometimes blow up and make those spectacular flashes.
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New TV Drama About The Imminent Arrival Of A Killer Asteroid Feels Very Timely
Unfortunately, the CBS show — from executive producer Alex Kurtzman, whose TV credits include Fringe, Limitless, Sleepy Hollow, and Alias; he also directed the Tom Cruise Mummy reboot that’s out next year — is titled Salvation, suggesting it might not end with the asteroid smashing Earth into a billion pieces, as we all might currently…