Asteroid tracked from space to Earth for 1st time
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 14:43
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists for the first time have recovered meteorite pieces from an asteroid first observed in space - a stroke of luck that could prove valuable when tracking space rocks heading on a collision course toward Earth.
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