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Now, thanks to stunning images from a craft that landed on the asteroid, scientists have proposed an exotic explanation: electrostatic levitation, triggered by sunlight.

To find out how accurately those infrared data determine the size of an asteroid, scientists have to calibrate them with radar observations, other observations made when asteroids pass in front of distant stars, and observations made by spacecraft up close.

Based on its shape and density — it's about 800 meters long and only 80 meters wide, and appears to be more solid than your average asteroid — scientists believed there was a very small chance that it might not be 100percentt natural.

Asteroid scientists, however, have warmed up to the idea.

A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta has snapped amazing new photos of the colossal space rock, images that reveal strange features never-before-seen on an asteroid, scientists say.

Updated March 22 at 5 36 p.m. ET. The rocky object that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, scientists say.

Knowing more about near-Earth asteroids, scientists say, could help humans better defend themselves against a possible future collision.

Although they look just like asteroids, scientists now say they formed like our own moon did, after a big object smashed into the planet and kicked up debris.

B1 Neediest Cases B9 SCIENCE TIMES F1-8 How to Stop an Asteroid NASA scientists, who have been studying the orbits of asteroids, claim that it is time that the government started thinking about the best ways to respond to the possibility of an asteroid striking the planet.

But if that errant space rock was a whopper, it was a pipsqueak compared to an asteroid that scientists now say slammed into Earth 3.26 billion years ago.

A large asteroid that scientists initially thought could pose a threat to Earth in the year 2040 will actually whiz safely by our planet and leave our world unscathed, NASA astronomers say.