A new study has found evidence of an 'extraterrestrial' asteroid impact in South Carolina. The asteroid may have caused an ice age as well as mass extinction and wildfires nearly 13,000 years ago.
Here’s one extraterrestrial express bus you’ll be glad you missed: An asteroid named 2019 AE3 will pass by Earth on Thursday morning, Jan. 2.
NASA says the space rock is between 32 and 71 feet long , or roughly the size of a city bus, and zooming through the cosmos at 18,400 miles per hour.
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East Henderson grad gets grant to improve asteroid tracking at Squirrel Valley Observatory in
A Polk County astronomer has been awarded grant money to help defend the Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids.
Randy Flynn of Squirrel Valley Observatory in Columbus was awarded $6,139 from the Planetary Society 2019 Shoemaker Grant for components to help automate his observatory.
The upgrades include an automated roof system and observatory automation software that will enable a significant increase in observing time.
NASA Asteroid Hunter Chooses Landing Site on Boulder-Strewn Space Rock - Scientific American
NASA has chosen the spot on the asteroid Bennu where it will attempt to land a spacecraft next year and hoover up bits of rock and dirt before returning to Earth.
The OSIRIS-REx probe has been orbiting Bennu since last December, studying its surface and working out the safest place to descend. The spacecraft will target an area called Nightingale, with a back-up area called Osprey. If all goes well, OSIRIS-REx will touch down at one of the sites, blast the asteroid’s surface with a puff of nitrogen gas to kick up dirt and gather the precious samples, NASA said on 12 December.
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As not only 2019 but the whole 2010s come to a close, it's time to review some of the biggest space science stories of the decade.
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This Is What It Looks Like When an Asteroid Gets Destroyed - The New York Times
The asteroid belt, hanging out between Mars and Jupiter, is not like the cluttered debris field in "The Empire Strikes Back." It may contain millions of rocky and metal objects, but the distances separating them are vast, and collisions are rare.
That is what makes P/2016 G1 such an exciting object. Spotted zipping through the asteroid belt in early 2016, this object had a strange orbit and a tail of dust that resembled a comet. Through a careful analysis of telescopic imagery, scientists identified multiple showers of debris shooting up from its surface, the sort that could have only been produced by an impact.
Asteroid 2019 OK just missed Earth, surprising scientists - The Washington Post
Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer's phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed past Earth, and he couldn't figure out "why everyone was so alarmed."
"I thought everyone was getting worried about something we knew was coming," Duffy, who is lead scientist at the Royal Institution of Australia, told The Washington Post. Forecasts had already predicted that a couple of asteroids would be passing relatively close to Earth this week.
An asteroid larger than some of the world's tallest buildings will zip by Earth Saturday - CNN
(CNN) On Saturday, an asteroid will pass by Earth that's larger than some of the tallest buildings on the planet.
How Worried Should We Be About Asteroids? | airspacemag.com | Air & Space Magazine
In a word, no. It’s true that over the past two decades, NASA funding for planetary-defense programs against potentially Earth-threatening asteroids has increased dramatically. But it’s not enough. This year NASA will spend $150 million on near-Earth-object detection and related programs, but that’s less than one percent of NASA’s $21.5 billion budget.
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NASA says the space rock is between 32 and 71 feet long, or roughly the size of a city bus, and zooming through the… https://t.co/BZh7AorbPV FOXLA (from Los Angeles, CA) Thu Jan 02 06:30:00 +0000 2020
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