collision

A collision is an isolated event in which two or more moving bodies (colliding bodies) exert forces on each other for a relatively short time.

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Giant Radio telescope spots colliding galaxies

Mon, Oct 3, 2011

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A new radio telescope array built in the world’s highest and driest desert in the world has just photographed two colliding galaxies for its first public test shots. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a joint project between Canada, Chile, the European Union, Japan, Taiwan and the United States was officially opened for business after a [...]

NASA to collect samples from near-Earth asteroid

Thu, May 26, 2011

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NASA announced that it will launch an unmaned ship to a nearby asteroid, in an attempt to figure out more about both the asteroid itself, and how life started on our planet. The mission, named Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer – or, as always, with an easier more manageable name, Osiris-Rex was chosen to take place [...]

A fifth of Florida’s pumas were killed in car collisions

Sat, Jan 9, 2010

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There are less than 100 pumas left in Florida’s wilds, and 17 were killed in collisions with cars, which is even more than in 2008 (when 10 such magnificent creatures found their death after being hit by a car) and 2007 (15). For me, it’s absolutely heart breaking to see this happening. You’d expect people [...]

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