HELSINKI — China is advancing the development of the Chang’e-7 lunar south pole mission and a complex campaign to study comets and return samples from a near-Earth asteroid with a single orbiter.
The China National Space Administration issued a call ( Chinese ) in late July to university, middle school and elementary school students for popular science experiments for the multiple-spacecraft Chang'e-7 lunar mission, and an asteroid and comet exploration project tentatively named ZhengHe.
Other things to check out:
Asteroid tsunami: How scientists warned impact could 'send 400 feet waves to US coast' | Science
But, if an asteroid crashes into the Earth, it is likely to splash down somewhere in the oceans as they cover 70 percent of the planet's surface.
A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USCS), showed waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the US.
Steven Ward, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCSC, and Erik Asphaug, an associate professor of Earth sciences, reported their findings in the Geophysical Journal International.
Asteroid tracker: NASA captures INCREDIBLE space rock video completing near-Earth approach |
Incredible images of the approaching asteroid were captured by experts at the UH Institute for Astronomy (IfA), using telescopes from the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) global telescope network.
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The University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Haleakalā is the world leader in finding Near-Earth Objects (NEOs).
The discoveries from the Maui-based project are used by local high school students to direct follow-up observations with LCO.
Schoolgirls in India discover asteroid after trawling through space images | Fox News
Two schoolgirls in India have won praise from scientists after discovering a distant asteroid that will eventually fly past Earth.
Vaidehi Vekariya Sanjaybhai and Radhika Lakhani Prafulbhai from the city of Surat in the state of Gujarat made the incredible discovery, according to SPACE India, which provides astronomy and space science education.
The All India Asteroid Search Campaign (AIASC) supported the students’ research into the asteroid HLV2514. Vaidehi Vekariya Sanjaybhai told ANI News last week that the space rock was near Mars and “is expected to cross Earth in the future.”
Quite a lot has been going on:
Two Indian teenagers have discovered an Earth-bound asteroid | World Economic Forum
VLT Measures Main-Belt Asteroid Euphrosyne and Its Moon | Astronomy | Sci-News.com
Using the high-angular resolution observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have determined the 3D shape, diameter and density of the asteroid (31) Euphrosyne and the diameter of its moon.
This image, taken with the ZIMPOL instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the asteroid Euphrosyne and its moon S/2019 (31) 1 (right). Image credit: Yang et al , arXiv: 2007.08059.
Euphrosyne , one of the biggest objects in the Solar Systrem's main asteroid belt, was discovered by James Ferguson on September 1, 1854, the first asteroid found from North America.
Hawaii students track asteroid as it passes near Earth | University of Hawaiʻi System News
“It's great to see our high school students being part of cutting edge science, using data from Hawaiʻi 's observatories and around the world. These are our future STEM superstars,” said J.D. Armstrong , HI STAR director and IfA Maui outreach astronomer.
Guarin and Teagarden received high honors at the 2020 Maui County Science and Engineering Fair for their astronomy research. Guarin has observed exoplanets and authored several MPC circulars. Teagarden has studied asteroids and presented a project on sun-orbiting asteroid Gault.
Lucy mission one step closer to the Trojan asteroids
Over the last few months, the Lucy team has focused on building and testing all the components of the spacecraft, including the scientific instruments , electronics, communications and navigation systems while observing all appropriate pandemic protocols. At this review, the Lucy team demonstrated to an independent senior review board, including NASA and external experts, that the systems and subsystems are on schedule to proceed to assembly, testing and integration.
The virtual review was held the week of July 27, 2020, with all team members and panel experts participating from their homes.
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