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Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system (artist's rendering). Credit: /Murayama, Osaka University

A massive asteroid shower hit the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago

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The Earth and the Moon are being bombarded by asteroids at an increased rate. Illustration: shutterstock

The Earth and Moon have had many more asteroid impacts since the age of the dinosaurs

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Imaging of the Osiris-Rex probe collecting a sample from the Bennu asteroid. Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.

A seven-year journey to retrieve sixty grams of an asteroid

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Imaging of the Osiris-Rex probe

NASA will launch the Osiris-Rex probe to return a sample from an asteroid to Earth

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An artist's illustration of what a large meteorite hitting the sea might look like in the first second of impact. We do not know if the area affected 3 billion years ago was covered by water or if the sea was nearby. Credit: Carsten Egestal Thuesen, GEUS

The oldest crater on Earth was discovered in Greenland

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Simulation of the impact of a giant asteroid with a diameter of 10 kilometers on the Earth. Image: NASA

Researchers at Los Alamos Laboratories: We've been able to figure out how to blow up an asteroid that threatens Earth

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Artist's rendering of a near-Earth asteroid. Illustration: ESA - P.Carril

A large asteroid may hit the Earth in 2040, monitoring for at least a year is required to determine exactly the chances

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The Manicouagan impact crater in Canada. Photo: NASA

Before the asteroid catches us with our pants down

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Tzedek and on him the lightning strike, August 20, 2010

Again a heavenly body hit Jupiter

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A small asteroid passed close to Earth

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A new goal for NASA - to fight asteroids * On Sunday, a conference at Uni. cell

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A giant asteroid may hit Earth in 2880

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