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May 02, 2011

NASA's Swift And Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris

Objects Impacted At About 11,000 MPH

Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed these changes likely occurred after Scheila was struck by a much smaller asteroid.

Shuttle Endeavour Launch No Earlier Than May 8

While the ANN crew sure enjoyed the few hours we spent last week at the cape in preparation for the launch of STS-1243... we sure did not enjoy the other ritual we have come to know all too well... the Launch Scrub. NASA managers have determined space shuttle Endeavour will not launch before Sunday, May 8, but will not officially set a new launch date until early this week. After Friday's launch scrub, Kennedy Space Center technicians searched for the cause of a failure in a heater circuit associated with Endeavour's hydraulic power system. The failure was found to be in a power circuit in a switchbox in the shuttle's aft compartment.