Just as I am leaving, Pitt guides me out of earshot from the kids swirling around the space rocks.
The Wise telescope instead looks at the infrared light emitted from space rocks, which is related to the temperature of the object.
So far they have counted more than 9, 000 near-Earth asteroids, and they spot another 800 new space rocks on average each year.
The results suggest the meteor belongs to a well known family of space rocks - known as the Apollo asteroids - that cross Earth's orbit.
Now, it is popular to call space rocks after rock stars: Lennon (4147), McCartney (4148) and Zappafrank (3834) got their names this way.
The meteor event in Russia on Friday is a sobering reminder that space is a busy place, and that space rocks can take us by surprise.
In proving that the earth takes a regular beating from space rocks he opened the way for others, in 1980, to find traces of the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs.
NASA's slice of the pie includes a plan that would improve detection of near-Earth asteroids, send a solar-powered robot ship (like the NASA concept above) to capture one of the space rocks and tow it back to a stable orbit near Earth, where researchers could study it up close.
It looked like a dry lake bed from space but none of the nearby rocks showed any sign of a watery past.
The calm serenity of paddling in sync, quietly gliding along the water and listening to the birds, seeing starfish sunbathing on the rocks and even watching a deer chill out right by your campsite, content to share your space.
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Both of the new-new notebooks also offer up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM and nVidia graphics cards, but the 9510 rocks the GeForce Go 7900 GS with 512MB of RAM and up to 240GB of hard drive space, while the 9110 has to settle for the GeForce Go 7600 with 256MB of RAM and a HDD that maxes out at 120GB.
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