Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979 [email protected] Aug. 2, 2010 MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-105 NASA Hosts Workshop To Discuss Exploring Near Earth Objects WASHINGTON — NASA will host an interactive workshop to identify objectives for exploration missions to near-Earth objects, or NEOs, on Aug. 10-11 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington. The event will…

By comparing the LRO pictures with images collected by Apollo missions in the 1970s, they have found five craters that have appeared in the past four decades. That is helping the team to determine how frequently objects strike the Moon, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona in Tucson. They have only surveyed a small sliver of the Moon, and expect to find more craters…

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