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Space Junk in a Bookstore

Pale Blue Pod

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The Earth Is Losing Weight Every Year

The Earth loses about 100,000 tons every single year because of gas escaping our atmosphere. NASA is monitoring asteroids and comets just to make sure none of them are getting close to us. The asteroid redirection test or dart mission sent a spacecraft slamming into an asteroid that we detected. It knocked it off of its orbit by 33 minutes.

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