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An Asteroid with Six Tails, and More – The Countdown, Episode 35

More to explore: Bizarre Asteroid with Six Tails Spotted by Hubble Telescope (Space.com) Liftoff! India’s First Mars Probe Launches Toward the Red Planet (Space.com) Kepler Telescope Finds Plethora of Earth-Size Planets (Scientific American) Chelyabinsk Eyewitnesses Help Scientists Resolve Meteor Mysteries (Scientific American) Gravity Maps Reveal Why the Moon’s Far Side Is Covered with Craters (Nature [...]

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Bizarre Asteroid with Six Tails Spotted by Hubble Telescope (Space.com)


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Liftoff! India's First Mars Probe Launches Toward the Red Planet (Space.com)

Kepler Telescope Finds Plethora of Earth-Size Planets (Scientific American)

Chelyabinsk Eyewitnesses Help Scientists Resolve Meteor Mysteries (Scientific American)

Gravity Maps Reveal Why the Moon's Far Side Is Covered with Craters (Nature News)

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