NASA’s asteroid trackers have dubbed the rocky body Asteroid 2019 YL3, due to its discovery earlier last week.
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Since the initial observation, the US space agency has tracked the asteroid 30 times to determine its speed, size and orbit.
NASA said: “Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood.”
Not to change the topic here:
Here's how many asteroids are in the asteroid belt
Asteroid 'attack': Scientists eye space rock collision | Fox News
The European Space Agency has received approval to aid NASA in its asteroid deflection plan, the upcoming Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.
According to the ESA's website, the European space ministers have approved the agency's plan to build and launch the Hera spacecraft, which will visit the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's DART spacecraft is slated to collide with the smaller Didymoon asteroid, which orbits Didymos, sometime near the end of 2022.
The Public Helped NASA Pick a Landing Site on Asteroid Bennu | Digital Trends
Citizen scientists have helped to find the perfect landing spot for the OSIRIS-REx craft on asteroid Bennu, orbiting an average of 105 million miles from the sun.
NASA announced it had selected a landing site on Bennu earlier this month, after selecting four candidate landing sites . The asteroid is proving more challenging to land on than had been anticipated, however, as it does not have the flat, smooth surface that the researchers had thought they would find. Instead, the terrain is very rocky, with many large and small boulders that could prove hazardous to landing spacecraft.
Other things to check out:
X Marks the Spot: NASA Selects Site for Asteroid Sample Collection | NASA
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Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East
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The Outdoor Activities Club, Aka, the Outclub has 3 members. In the countryside of Yamanashi Prefecture, there’s a high school named Motosu High School. Go even further to one of the school buildings and you’ll find a very laid-back outdoor club that uses one corner of the classroom as their club room.
They drag the confused Nadeshiko with them and the Outclub hustles all through Yamanashi. The girls enjoy the various local treats as they travel around, but where in the world is the end destination for this trip?!
Starwatch: the annual display of the Quadrantid meteor shower | Science | The Guardian
New weekly educational series focuses on comets and asteroids - RocketSTEM
I ce and Stone 2020 is a new weekly series of educational material focusing on some of the small bodies of the solar system – comets and asteroids. The Earthrise Institute , a non-profit educational organization founded by Comet Hale-Bopp co-discoverer Alan Hale, is partnering with RocketSTEM and the La Cumbres Observatory to release the material for FREE online so that all teachers, students and parents worldwide have access to it.
"2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp, and also marks the 50th anniversary of my first comet observation, which I made when I was still in elementary school," noted Hale. "Given that, together with the resurgence in interest in these small bodies over the past couple of decades and the various spacecraft missions that have examined them, it seems especially appropriate to have a program of this nature at this time."
Happening on Twitter
1-Imagine if NASA predicted a major asteroid impact next week 2-Then it was discovered that their orbital calculati… https://t.co/DJpgeBoTyw RogerPielkeJr (from Boulder, CO USA) Mon Dec 30 16:44:03 +0000 2019
.@Uarizona is teaming up with @NASA to increase safety from asteroids and comets. https://t.co/CAxh5WazWk kyrstensinema (from Phoenix) Tue Dec 31 00:00:28 +0000 2019
Astronomers have suspected debris from asteroid Phaethon causes the Geminid meteor shower. Now, NASA's Parker Solar… https://t.co/QlRrWTfxdt AstronomyMag (from Our tiny corner of the cosmos) Fri Dec 27 13:30:09 +0000 2019
@NASAJuno Our @OSIRISRex spacecraft captured this look at a region near the north pole of Bennu, on the terminator… https://t.co/FSZbR7gOMY NASASolarSystem (from Milky Way galaxy) Mon Dec 23 19:10:49 +0000 2019
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