As the space rock burned up over the city of Chelyabinsk, the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings.
Leaving this too long would make it impossible to build a spacecraft powerful enough to move the space rock out of harm's way.
Ever spend an afternoon blasting space rock with your wedge of death?
And on the same day, a 17m space rock exploded over Russia's Ural mountains with an energy of about 440 kilotonnes of TNT.
He confides to in hushed tones about the space rock, the inevitable asteroid that will hit the earth someday and obliterate life as we know it.
That one was expected -- but the same day, an unrelated, 45-foot space rock plunged into the atmosphere and exploded high over southwestern Russia, injuring an estimated 1, 200 people.
Up-close examination of a captured asteroid would also yield insights into the economic value of space rock resources and shed light on the best ways to deflect potentially dangerous asteroids away from Earth.
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Philadelphia's The Asteroid No. 4 takes dreamy shoegazer pop and mixes in elements of '60s psychedelia and latter-day space rock to create a folk-rock sound that falls somewhere between The Byrds and The Stone Roses.
And a few years before that, an 80-tonne space rock called 2008 TC3 ploughed into the Earth's atmosphere, largely burning up and scattering fragments over the Sudan - just 20 hours after it was discovered.
Further, study of the captured space rock could teach researchers how to efficiently extract water from asteroids a resource that could be an off-Earth source of radiation shielding and rocket fuel for journeying spacecraft.
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Once a piece of space-rock enters our atmosphere, it becomes known as a meteor.
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The space-rock aesthetic was no doubt influenced by producer and experimental musician Peter Kember, formerly of Spacemen 3.
The song's reverb-doused psychedelia offers a space-rock feel that reaches its apex during the track's huge, two-minute wall-of-sound finish.
Close by is Vaudeville Mews, a performance space for indie rock shows.
In 1908 a comparatively tiny piece of space-borne rock, 30-50 metres across, exploded above Tunguska, a remote part of Siberia.
Now, it is popular to call space rocks after rock stars: Lennon (4147), McCartney (4148) and Zappafrank (3834) got their names this way.
The researchers believe that as the cold wave moves from the surface, the rock pore space is completely filled in.
In one downstairs, there's a hidden toilet area, lighted with an Ingo Maurer winged bulb, as well as a vast shower and bath space, complete with rock-covered walls.
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Each was created by a giant rock from outer space slamming into the earth.
This is the home of the Patent Records Office, 4, 600 square meters of storage space hewn out of solid rock, the last repository of America's intellectual property.
Next up, things get a bit animated with Packing for Mars author Mary Roach, who will discuss the grosser side of manned space travel, while professional prognosticator (and sometimes rock musician) John Roderick kicks off his new reoccurring segment by explaining how space exploration helps him get out of bed in the morning.
Since a single song can require up to 24 megabytes (MB)4 of memory, quickly filling up the Wii's 512MB of onboard storage, the SanDisk Rock Band 2 SD gaming card provides enough storage space for at least 75 downloadable songs and enables gamers to take advantage of Rock Band 2's extra content.
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Now that all of his alter-egos have settled down, he can finally get on with the business of being David Bowie auteur, bon vivant, and eternally, rock's most gorgeous space alien.
His innovation was to take indie rock quietly toward melody, a space that had been left surprisingly wide open by his peers.
According to HootSuite, The Rock has dominated the social media space with over 414, 000 people talking about his world championship match with John Cena.
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According to the company developing the island group - state-owned Nakheel - Palm Jumeirah was built using 100 million cubic metres of sand and rock, and is large enough to be seen from space.
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Stitch is decorated with Singer machines and sewing patterns, while Mojo Record Bar, occupying space next to a record shop, keeps true to its cool, rock vibe with album covers lining the bar.
Rock-bottom interest rates mean that, economically, there is theoretically space for more expansionary fiscal policy.
In this environment, unsoftened by so much as a cushion or a curtain, Gary Yershon's amplified rock soundtrack echoes and re-echoes, assaulting us as we share this dismal space with the grey-tracksuited ranks of prisoners.
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