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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VESTA LIKELY COLD AND DARK ENOUGH FOR ICE Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of years, according to the first published models of Vesta's average global temperatures and illumination by the sun. |
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CATCHING A COMET DEATH ON CAMERA On July 6, 2011, a comet was caught doing something never seen before: die a scorching death as it flew too close to the sun. |
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SPACE MOUNTAIN PRODUCES TERRESTRIAL METEORITES When NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around giant asteroid Vesta in July, scientists fully expected the probe to reveal some surprising sights. |
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