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An aerospace and physics researcher has a plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint. The idea may sound crazy, but he’s working with NASA on the project.

Dave Hyland thinks that one possible way to avert an asteroid collision with Earth is by using a process called “tribocharging powder dispensing” to spread a thin layer of paint on an approaching asteroid, such as the one named DA14 that came within 17,000 miles on February 15.
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As Asteroid 2012 DA14 approached Earth, a significant meteor strike took place in central Russia. Most experts do not believe that the two events were related, and NASA has confirmed that the asteroid has not broken up. However, smaller debris is sometimes present near asteroids, and is not generally detectable, so it is possible that such debris comprised the meteor.
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The new Mars rover was named Curiosity because it hopes to answer one of the greatest questions of modern man: Are we really Martians?

A few billion years ago, Mars may have been a planet covered with oceans. We’re not sure what happened (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), but we do know that the liquid has mostly burned away. Curiosity will probe the soil that they left behind in order to look for tiny fossils.
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