NASA is set to launch a spacecraft next month on the agency's first mission to a group of asteroids near Jupiter.
The Lucy space probe is scheduled to lift off on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Oct. 16.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has been circling Jupiter since 2016, but this will be the agency's first expedition to study two swarms of space rocks at the gas giant — one group that orbits the sun ahead of Jupiter and another that trails behind the planet.
Warehouse-sized asteroid sneaks up on Earth by hiding near the sun - CNET
A space rock possibly as wide as a football field flew between the moon and Earth last week, but the big asteroid -- catalogued as 2021 SG -- wasn't spotted until the day after it had already made its closest pass by our planet.
That meteor was estimated to be only about one quarter the diameter of 2021 SG, and yet that was large enough to create a shock wave that blew out thousands of windows in the city below, injuring hundreds.
Asteroid as big as football field narrowly passed Earth, was hid by our Sun | HT Tech
Asteroids are aplenty in the space and they keep passing Earth many a times. In most of these times, astronomers keep an eye out for these rocks way before they approach Earth. However, on September 16, we had a surprise visit from a fairly large asteroid that passed our telescopes undetected.
Asteroid sample brought back to Earth gets close-up look
Milliken and Takahiro Hiroi, a senior research scientist at Brown, are members of the Hayabusa2 mission's science team.
First of all, we're really excited to be a part of what is an amazing international mission, and it's a great honor to be able to analyze this sample so early in the process. I think there are a couple of reasons why we were chosen.
Dust collected from a speeding asteroid analyzed with massive accelerator | University of
It's not uncommon for scientists to bring interesting objects thousands of miles to Argonne National Laboratory for study. But it's fair to say that the latest of these to land at the laboratory came from much, much farther away.
A team of scientists with Argonne and the University of Chicago is among the few groups around the world chosen to study tiny fragments of an asteroid. These dust particles came from 162173 Ryugu, part of a group of near-Earth objects called the Apollo asteroids.
Argonne Gets Rare Access To Probe Asteroid Fragments Collected From Space | Chicago News | WTTW
Late last year, a small space capsule entered the atmosphere and — after a fiery descent — parachuted to Earth, landing in the Australian Outback.
The capsule was carrying incredibly precious cargo from an ambitious Japanese space mission to land a probe on an asteroid named 162173 Ryugu and bring back samples for study.
Ways of Protecting Our Precious Planet from Asteroid Impacts
Unfortunately, we don't. What we do have in place are the first steps to protecting ourselves from incoming asteroids and meteors and that is detection. Our mighty telescopes do a great job of detecting any celestial objects that may be coming our way.
Data from these telescopes is scanned and analyzed to see if there are any moving objects and further calculate their corresponding trajectories. If a potential threat is identified, even more powerful telescopes are then used to obtain a better view of the incoming object.
Could a million small asteroids be on a collision course with Earth? | South China Morning Post
7 amazing facts about Asteroids | Research Matters
1. Asteroids are relics from the time the solar system was born
Billions of years ago, when the solar system was forming, space dust and debris fused to form rocks and rubble. As the rocks churned, they rammed into one another, merged and formed planets and moons.
2. There are millions of asteroids in the solar system
Once Jupiter formed, its massive gravity held the remaining millions of space rocks captive and prevented them from forming more planetary bodies between Mars and itself.
Spacecraft to detect asteroids would 'probably' detect football field sized space rock agency
Published: 11:09 EDT, 27 September 2021 | Updated: 11:10 EDT, 27 September 2021
Asteroid 2021 SG, which flew past Earth undetected on September 16, would have been spotted by an upcoming telescope used to detect such dangerous space rocks, NASA has insisted.
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