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12 November 2009
Crescent Earth as Seen by Comet Chasing Spacecraft
Title this one "Rich Blue Crescent" (as opposed to Pale Blue Dot.) This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser today (November 12) at 12:28 GMT from about 633,000 km as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. Closest approach is [...]
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13 February 2009
Last Summer's Fireball in Pieces on the Ground?
  The Bejar bolide photographed from Torrelodones, Madrid, Spain. The incoming fireball is the streak to the right of the floodlit house. The bright light at the top is the overexposed Moon. Credit: J. Perez Vallejo/SPMN. Astronomers have analyzed the cometary fireball that blazed across the sky over Europe last year and concluded it was a dense object, [...]
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