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Chemistry World November 19, 2014 Emma Stoye	Philae detects organics on comet's surface The first measurements taken by the Philae lander, which touched down on Comet 67P on 12 November, reveal organic compounds are present on the comet's surface, and also hint at a dense, icy interior.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc.
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick	Bombing a Comet Yesterday at 1:47 p.m. EST, NASA successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft toward its rendezvous with a comet.
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
Geotimes February 2007 Cassandra Willyard	Surprise! Stardust Lands Actual Stardust The dust is clearing around a cosmic puzzle that has long piqued the interest of astronomers. Tiny grains of dust, no larger than the width of a human hair, are revealing the conditions in which the solar system, and perhaps life, got its start.
Smithsonian December 2006 Eric Jaffe	Clues from a Comet The first mission to collect space matter from beyond the moon offers insights into the solar system's creation.
Popular Mechanics November 13, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot	NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's.
Popular Mechanics August 21, 2009 Andrew Moseman	NASA's Greatest Mission? Stardust Finds Amino Acids, Keeps on Giving to Science In Stardust's tennis racket shaped aerogel collectors, Michael Zolensky of NASA's Johnson Space Center and his colleagues found lots of surprises.
InternetNews July 5, 2005 Roy Mark	NASA'S Comet Collision Explodes in 'Net Traffic Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Andy Extance	Comet 67P's carbon blanket promises solar system birth insights A layer of organic material unlike anything seen on any other comet humans have studied enfolds comet 67P/Churyumov -- Gerasimenko, Rosetta probe scientists have revealed.
Popular Mechanics January 18, 2008 Jennifer Bogo	Inside NASA's Mega Flyby of Mercury's Dark Side NASA's new Messenger spacecraft will conduct a full scientific investigation of Mercury's surface.
Popular Mechanics December 2006 David Noland	The Threat is Out There More than 100,000 asteroids hurtle past our planet. But only one -- that we know of -- may hit us in the next 30 years.
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Leslie Sabbagh	Survival of the Oldest Payload Ever: The Stardust Spacecraft Returns to Earth After seven years and 2.9 billion miles, the Stardust spacecraft sent back to Earth the oldest material ever collected.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Stardust Landing a Smashing Success Seven years after its launch, NASA's Stardust spacecraft concluded its 4.6-billion-kilometer roundtrip journey to fly through the tail of a comet and collect dust samples, which astronomers hope will offer insight about the formation of our solar system.
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Andy Extance	Philae poses comet chemistry conundrum As the Philae lander bounced across comet 67P/Churyumov -- Gerasimenko's surface in November last year, two chemical instruments were able to take tentative -- but intriguingly contradictory -- sniffs of its environment.
Geotimes January 2004 Megan Sever	Unraveling the Chicxulub Case On the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, geologists are drilling one of Earth's three largest impact structures, hoping to reveal clues about a devastating event linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Chemistry World November 18, 2009 Jon Cartwright	NASA data point to icy moon Scientists operating NASA's LCROSS (lunar crater observation and sensing satellite) mission, part of which impacted the moon on live television last month, say that shadowy lunar craters almost certainly contain water ice.
Chemistry World September 12, 2010 Mike Brown	Comet shockwaves helped stimulate life on Earth The shock waves caused as comets hit the early Earth could have helped promote the formation of amino acids and the early building blocks of life, say US researchers.
Popular Mechanics April 10, 2006 Benjamin Chertoff	NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005	NASA probe uses Express Logic software NASA engineers used ThreadX software to manage cameras and collect data during the Deep Impact Probe mission intended to collide with deep-space comet Tempel 1.
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert	Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles.
AskMen.com	NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.
Chemistry World October 29, 2015 Emma Stoye	Rosetta detects oxygen on comet 67P Molecular oxygen has been detected in the cloud of gas surrounding comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta space probe.
Geotimes January 2006 Megan Sever	Sizing up a Crater New modeling of the impact of an Eocene extraterrestrial projectile in what is now the Chesapeake Bay shows that it was smaller than previously thought, and could help better predict the effects of future potential impacts.
Geotimes January 2004 C. Wylie Poag	Coring the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater An extraterrestrial impact 36 million years ago left a lasting impression in the Chesapeake Bay and continues to affect the region's environment today.
Popular Mechanics May 7, 2009 Mark Anderson	When Comets Attack: Solving the Mystery of the Biggest Natural Explosion in Modern History Scientists today think a small fragment of a comet or asteroid caused the "Tunguska event," so named for the Tunguska river in Siberia.
Popular Mechanics January 5, 2010 Jeremy Jacquot	The Top 4 Sites to Land on Mars and Their Biggest Mysteries Scientists at the Pasadena based NASA research center will decide within the next two years where to send the Mars Science Laboratory rover after it launches in the fall of 2011.
AskMen.com	Bombing The Moon NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up.
Geotimes January 2004 Lisa M. Pinsker	Impacts in Space and on Earth: An Interview with Carolyn Shoemaker Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered more comets than anyone else alive today. Under the tutelage of her late husband, Carolyn learned how to identify these objects both in the sky and on the ground.
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Making a Public Impact What the public observes or, better yet, captures on film both during the Deep Impact comet collision and in the weeks before and after, could prove useful to the team of NASA scientists trying to understand the comet and the effects of the impact.
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