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Asteroid Vesta as imaged by the DAWN spacecraft on July 18, 2011

Today and night in asteroid Vesta

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The asteroid Vesta as photographed by the DAWN spacecraft on July 9, 2011, from a distance of about 41 thousand kilometers. Each pixel in the image represents about 3.8 kilometers.

NASA's DAWN spacecraft will begin orbiting the asteroid Vesta today

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A strange configuration of an object left after a collision between two asteroids in February 2009. Hubble took the image in January 2010, after the object was discovered by the LINEAR skyscanner telescope

Hubble observed the remnants of an asteroid collision that occurred last year

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Artist's illustration of a double asteroid. Image: ESO, European Southern Observatory, European Space Agency.

Astronomers from Tel Aviv University reveal the origin of "separated pairs of asteroids"

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Asteroid Lutetia as imaged by the Rosetta spacecraft on July 10, 2010

Rosetta made a flyby of the asteroid Lutetia

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WISE space telescope. Image: NASA

Asteroids lurk in the dark

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The orbit of Themis in the asteroid belt, Themis is one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. Illustration: Josh Emery, University of Tennessee in Knoxville

Researchers have found water and organic matter on the asteroid Themis

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Imaging of the Rosetta spacecraft near asteroid Steins, 2008. Image: European Space Agency

Survey of minerals in asteroids

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P/2010 A2 - comet-like asteroid

Hubble observed and confirmed that the suspicious object is indeed a remnant of an asteroid collision

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P/2010 A as photographed by Dr. Robert McMillan at Kitt Peak, Arizona. Photo: University of Arizona

An asteroid collision created a comet-like object

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A small asteroid passed close to Earth

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For the first time, water was discovered on an asteroid, Themis.

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Jupiter captured a comet and turned it into a moon for 12 years

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Asteroid Steins looks like a diamond in the sky

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DAWN spaceship launch

NASA's Dawn spacecraft begins its journey to the asteroid belt * The launch was successful

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The source of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs has been discovered

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A double asteroid - or two piles of stones?

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Sunlight causes a change in the rotation speed of asteroids

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On its way to Mars, Rosetta photographed the asteroid Lutetia, which it will reach in 2010

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Ceres - the largest of the asteroids, a dwarf planet and almost unknown

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Commentary: Has Pluto degradated or not?

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The Japanese spacecraft Yabusa photographed the asteroid it will land on

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The Dawn spacecraft will show how two asteroids can be so different

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comet-like asteroids

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Israeli asteroid researcher Ilan Manolis had an asteroid named after him

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