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Images of asteroid Apophis recorded by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex in California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The asteroid was 10.6 million miles (17 million kilometers) away, and each pixel has a resolution of 127 feet (38.75 meters). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO.

Israel’s Weizmann Institute joins NASA planetary defense exercise

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Representatives from the Weizmann Institute’s Physics Faculty in Rehovot joined more than 100 astronomers worldwide in a recent NASA planetary defense exercise. As part of the exercise, David Polishook, a member of the faculty and...
NASA sign at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center. Credit: L. Galbraith/Shutterstock.

NASA names two asteroids after Israeli student who discovered them

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NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is naming two recently discovered asteroids after an Israeli student who found them during an asteroid-hunting project, it was announced on Friday. Aseel Nama, a biomedical engineering student at the...