31 Aug 09. GRAVITY TRACTOR TO DIVERT ASTEROIDS. British astronomers say a 10-ton "gravity tractor" spacecraft would pull any dangerous asteroid off-course - but would have to be launched 15 years in advance. MORE...

16 Aug 09. ASTEROIDS BROUGHT LIFE TO EARTH - Science writer Robert Hotz says in the Wall Street Journal (Science Journal) that there is a lingering echo of a cataclysmic bombardment that shaped the origin of life here 3.9 billion years ago, when millions of asteroids, comets and meteors pummelled our planet. MORE...

12 Aug 09. SPECTACULAR EARTH CRATER PHOTOS - Wired magazine has placed online a brilliant set of photos taken from satellites and the space shuttle. Some look like abstract paintings, but all carried destruction. The photos prove that Earth is in fact littered with craters, and notable impacts happen regularly - give or take a few hundred thousand years!   MORE...

3 Aug 09. COMETS WILL NOT CAUSE EARTH  EXTINCTION - A fresh study published in the journal science has unveiled that life on Earth will not come to an end due to crashing comets. Asteroids remain a serious threat. MORE...

2 Aug 09. ASTEROIDS THE BIGGEST THREAT - Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. MORE...

28 July 09. Save the Dome - petition. Some landowners are agitating to have the Dome delisted as a World Heritage Site. Stop them! SIGN HERE.

26 July 09. Massive impact on Jupiter. An impact scar the size of the Earth appeared on the biggest gas planet. Maybe we Earthlings were saved (and not for the first time) by the pull of Jupiter's gravity. Imagine this: the impactor that caused such damage was only the size of "several football fields", far smaller than the Table Mountain-sized Vredefort Dome asteroid. See Jupiter pix and READ MORE.

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