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Latest Headlines — May 21, 2012 RSS Feed RSS
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Findings indicate there are roughly 4,700 near-Earth asteroids with orbits close to Earth’s and diameters larger than 330 feet (100 meters)
Exoplanet
A planet’s dust cloud may explain strange patterns of light from its star.
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