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11/8/11

Aircraft carrier sized Asteroid 2005 YU55 approaches to 324,600 km from us at 23:28 UT/6:28 PM EST tonight.Tue Nov 08 12:01:44 via Mobile Web

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11/8/11

Sister ship Voyager1 is 16 hrs 33 mins 31 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2011:312:1L)Tue Nov 08 12:00:13 via HootSuite

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11/8/11

Caught on camera: Things are hotting up as Nasa captures huge solar flare and coronal mass ejection on the same day http://t.co/IHCxmbUbTue Nov 08 10:37:43 via TweetDeck

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11/8/11

Russian space probe is due for launch today on ambitious mission to return samples from a moon of Mars. http://t.co/zWtKGfQBTue Nov 08 10:13:56 via TweetDeck

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11/9/11

Russia launches rocket to Mars' moon Phobos - video http://t.co/9QK8ZdHoWed Nov 09 12:17:42 via twitterfeed

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11/9/11

#Asteroid #YU55 now 404,200 miles from earth, having soared past lunar orbit. On a trek to arrive at Mars' orbit around April 1st. #NASAWed Nov 09 10:55:02 via web

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11/9/11

Sadly, there was a problem with the Phobos mission, and the spacecraft is in safe mode. If they can find a solution in the next 3 days, the mission could still go forward.


I found out... of course, via tweet. 


More details on the issues with Phobos-Soil here: http://t.co/gvYHbO7OWed Nov 09 12:59:05 via web

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11/12/11

November 12, 1799: Andrew Ellicott Douglass makes the first written record of a meteor shower in the US. http://t.co/sDPZr2ChSat Nov 12 12:42:17 via Twitter for iPhone

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11/20/11

Launch of NASA's new Mars rover is rescheduled for Sat., Nov. 26. The launch window opens at 10:02 a.m. EST. http://t.co/Yd6RqO5ESat Nov 19 21:21:48 via CoTweet

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11/23/11

I am also thankful for my fellow space and Solar System explorers - like Curiosity, scheduled to launch on Saturday! http://t.co/SRJbRgeLWed Nov 23 21:10:21 via Facebook

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