NASA's Ambitious Asteroid Defense Mission Set To Launch This Month
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will attempt what no mission has done before, which is to slightly deflect an asteroid's moon from its path to test potential planetary defense techniques.
Earth is lucky in that as far as scientists can see, there is no threatening world bearing down on us, which means we don't immediately have to worry about how to move a threatening asteroid (like we saw in Armageddon, Deep Impact or in the upcoming Netflix comedy, Don't Look Up , to name many
A small asteroid just grazed past Antarctica. Why didn't anyone see it coming?
NASA usually does a pretty good job at tracking relatively close asteroids whose paths might cross Earth’s orbit. However, over the weekend a small asteroid about the size of a refrigerator traveled just 3,000 km past Earth — much lower than most communications satellites.
The asteroid in question, known as 2021 UA1, represents the third closest asteroid flyby with no impact in recorded history. The two closest asteroid flybys were 2020 QC and 2020 VT4, both of which occurred in the latter half of 2020.
Kiwanis speaker details the day an asteroid didn't miss | news/arlington | insidenova.com
After a half hour with Greg Redfern, you are likely to spend the rest of your day looking over your shoulder. And up at the sky.
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Is an Asteroid to Blame for the Biblical Story of Sodom? - Atlas Obscura
This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license.
As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding toward them at about 38,000 mph (61,000 kph).
Bad Astronomy | Bennu's surface lacks dust due to rock porosity | SYFY WIRE
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu is only half a kilometer wide but could do extensive damage if it were to impact Earth. Understanding the threat from such impacts is a task astronomers take very seriously. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the tiny asteroid Bennu, scientists expected the wee world to look like a beach. Instead, it looked like a construction site.
Asteroid Blues Releases Debut EP Asteroid Blues | Grateful Web
Asteroid Blues have released their debut EP and will perform a release show on the 20th of November at the Chippo Hotel - Sydney.
Asteroid Blues was born out of a growing desire the members share, to experiment with clean rhythms, hard-hitting outros, catchy vocal leads, and sharp and melodic guitar solos.
Solar Wing Jammed on Asteroid-Chasing Spacecraft | Manufacturing Business Technology
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is debating whether to try to fix a jammed solar panel on its newly launched Lucy spacecraft, en route to explore an unprecedented number of asteroids.
After measuring the electric current this week, NASA reported Wednesday that one of Lucy's two giant, circular solar panels is only between 75% and 95% extended. A lanyard is holding it in place.
HI–STAR: 'I Love Lucy' satellite captivates Maui teens | University of Hawaiʻi System News
NASA launched its Lucy satellite on October 16. The ambitious Lucy mission's primary targets are eight Trojan asteroids—primitive asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit and could shed light on the formation of the Solar System.
Chau and Suzuki are not new to studying spacecraft. In 2018, they used LCO telescopes to image the SpaceX Tesla. For the pair's science fair project, the two measured the color of the Tesla, which surprisingly turned out to be white.
Amazon eyes asteroid mining, space tourism, other opportunities - Daily Times
Amazon Web Services is looking at space opportunities in asteroid mining, tourism, manufacturing and digital services over the next five to 10 years.
This comes as an increasingly lucrative and competitive market unfolds beyond the 100-kilometre high Karman line – a definition of the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.
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An #asteroid skimmed past the Earth last week at just 3,000 kilometers away from the planet's surface, but no one n… https://t.co/hgnhugSvtm Jerusalem_Post (from Israel) Tue Nov 02 04:18:02 +0000 2021
An asteroid skimmed past the Earth last week at just 3,000 kilometers away from the planet's surface, but no one no… https://t.co/6luCTxRl4a Jerusalem_Post (from Israel) Sun Oct 31 14:24:00 +0000 2021
An asteroid the size of a golf cart dubbed 2021 UA1 skimmed past the Earth last week at just 3,000 kilometers away… https://t.co/jfPVVgzC5c Jerusalem_Post (from Israel) Sat Oct 30 23:06:02 +0000 2021
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