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Asteroids, one Mount Everest-sized, will pass Earth this weekend. How to view from Boise
Asteroid 2011 UL21 is 1.4 miles wild, according to Space Reference, making it larger than 99% of all known near-Earth objects and roughly comparable to Mount Everest. Asteroid 2011 UL21 passed ...
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Meet the only NASA astronaut to climb Mount Everest
In 2009, he became the first person in history to have both flown in space and climbed the summit of Mount Everest. More from Careers ...
NASA tracking massive asteroid set to whiz past Earth at 35,000mph in hours
NASA is tracking the path of a huge asteroid that will come hurtling past Earth at a staggering speed of 35,000mph later ...
'Mount Everest dethroned': Mountains 100x taller found hidden within Earth’s mantle
Scientists uncover colossal mountains 100x taller than Everest hidden 1,200 miles beneath Earth's surface, reshaping our ...
Two hidden mountains 100 times taller than Everest discovered by scientists — but you won’t be able to visit them
At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...
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Nepal raises fees to climb Mount Everest to $15,000
Nepal is raising the permit fees to climb Mount Everest from $11,000 to $15,000. Income from the fees is a key source of ...
Colossal Mountains 100 Times Taller Than Everest Discovered Hidden Under Earth
These mountains, known as "Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces" or LLSVPs, sit on the boundary between Earth's core and ...
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Hillary On Everest: ‘It’s More About The First Chap To Go Up Backwards’
When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the tale - they doubted that the world's highest peak would ...