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Ages: 12 - 18
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Two weeks after an asteroid exploded over Russia's Ural mountains, scientists are making progress understanding the origin and make-up of the unexpected space rock. (03:45)
February 26, 2013 at 06:39 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Now that we’ve finished our tour of the planets, we’re headed back to the asteroid belt. Asteroids are chunks of rock, metal, or both that were once part of smallish planets but were destroyed after collisions. Most orbit the Sun between Mars and Jup...iter, but some get near the Earth. The biggest, Ceres is far smaller than the Moon but still big enough to be round and have undergone differentiation.
CORRECTION: In the episode we say that 2010 TK7 is 800 km away. However, 2010 TK7 stays on average 150 million kilometers from Earth, but that can vary wildly. Sorry about that! (11:33)
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June 6, 2015 at 06:49 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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A team of Canadian scientists have discovered a "Trojan" asteroid that is caught in a synchronized orbit with the Earth. Jeffrey Brown discusses what this discovery means with the California Institute of Technology's Mike Brown. (04:31)
July 31, 2011 at 07:14 AM
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Ages: 6 - 12
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Ever wonder what an asteroid is? Let's make sense of it with science. We all know the nine planets in our solar system, but did you know that there are other celestial bodies orbiting the sun? This video gives good facts about asteroids. A variety of... pictures are shown as well as auditory/written content. This is a wonderful resource for a lesson/unit on space and would work well in conjunction with non-fiction/fiction texts about same topics. (01:40)
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August 7, 2011 at 06:02 PM
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Ages: 9 - 18
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The viewer will learn, in this two-minute video, that after four years, the Dawn probe will begin orbiting the brightest asteroid in the sky. (01:59)
July 16, 2011 at 10:08 AM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn's framing camera, used to produce the visualizations, will help scientists determine the processes that for...med Vesta's striking features. (01:58)
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September 18, 2011 at 07:00 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Partial transcript: "2005 YU-55 is going to make a very close approach to the Earth on the night of November 8, 2011. At that time, its distance from Earth will be just under nine-tenths of the moon's distance away from us. 2005 YU-55 cannot hit Eart...h at least over the interval that we can compute the motion reliably which extends for several hundred years." (01:58)
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November 9, 2011 at 12:44 AM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Every year, millions of asteroids and comets or ''stray bullets'' streak through the skies, and tons of small meteorites strike our planet! Some 65 million years ago, dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the earth, in what many believe was the afterm...ath of a massive cosmic collision. Could something like this happen again? Scientists believe that the impact of an asteroid only a mile wide would be globally catastrophic. Join extraordinary geologist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife Carolyn who have remapped the heavens with their discoveries of more than 30 comets and hundreds of asteroids. Now that we know what's out there, how can we defend ourselves? (45:00)
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May 31, 2012 at 08:52 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Killer Asteroid Attack - Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about the chances of a killer asteroid falling on earth. He also relates what will happen if the asteroid lands in one of our oceans. (06:41)
March 17, 2011 at 09:23 PM
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