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	Science Daily update ⋅ October 10, 2022
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	Space.com Could an asteroid destroy Earth? Space.com Toon is referring to the giant impact hypothesis — a scientific theory that suggests a Mars-size planet named Theia collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago, launching a salvo of rocky debris into space that eventually coalesced into our moon. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com China launches ASO-S satellite to study the sun and space weather Space.com A Chinese spacecraft has taken flight to study the sun and improve space-weather predictions. The satellite, known as the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), lifted off atop a Long March 2D rocket on Saturday (Oct. 8) at 7:43 p.m. EDT (2343 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also triggered 'mega earthquake' Space.com Hermann Bermúdez, a geologist at Montclair State University in New Jersey, assessed the magnitude of the earthquake triggered by the Chicxulub impact by visiting K-Pg mass extinction event outcrops located in Texas, Alabama and Mississippi. Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com 'Death throes' of ancient ice sheets carved hidden valleys below the seafloor Livescience.com The surprising subterranean structures could yield clues as to how modern ice sheets will react to rapid warming caused by climate change, researchers say. The buried structures, known as tunnel valleys, are massive ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Could a powerful solar storm wipe out the internet? Livescience.com The first is that they cause electric currents to flow in Earth's upper atmosphere, heating the air "just like how your electric blanket works," Owens said. These geomagnetic storms can create beautiful auroras to appear over polar regions, but they can ... Flag as irrelevant
	TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press Skywatch: Jupiter has joined the evening sky TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press That's no star but rather the big guy of our solar system, the planet Jupiter. The 88,000-mile-wide planet, named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology, is visible all night long right now and is almost at its closest approach to Earth for 2022. Flag as irrelevant
	Noozhawk Dennis Mammana: All Jokes Aside, the Moon Meets Uranus This Week Noozhawk Go ahead. Get all the jokes out. You know you want to. I've done it, too, but quite honestly, they were all much funnier in seventh grade! In a few days the planet Uranus (pronounced YOU-rah-nus, by the way), will undergo what astronomers call a lunar ... Flag as irrelevant
	Inverse Earth's most powerful asteroid impact may be even bigger than we thought Inverse But a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets arrives at a different size and impact velocity for the Vredefort impactor. The study's authors say that the impactor was larger than thought, struck Earth at a greater velocity ... Flag as irrelevant
	Freethink How NASA plans to stop killer asteroids Freethink A surge of new asteroid discoveries could be just on the horizon, though, thanks to the Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) space telescope, the world's first spacecraft specifically designed to find hazardous NEOs. Flag as irrelevant
	The Indian Express Space news weekly recap: NASA SpaceX launch, Dimorphos' tail after DART and more The Indian Express The International Space Station welcomed four new residents on Thursday with the arrival of NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann and Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Kichi Wakata, and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina. The four-member Crew-5 mission launched ... Flag as irrelevant
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