Later this month, NASA will launch a mission to smack an asteroid into a new orbit to prepare for the possibility that an asteroid in the future might threaten Earth. But don't worry, experts agree that there is no possibility that (even if it goes awry) this asteroid-smashing could threaten
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART , will essentially practice what the agency might do if a relatively large asteroid were on a trajectory to collide with Earth. The mission will attempt to hit a space rock nearly head-on, smashing into it and tweaking its orbit.
Calls grow for US to bolster defense against asteroid threat
Though NASA says the odds are literally one in a millennium, no US agency is explicitly responsible if space rocks are headed our way.
“No one is tasked with mitigation," former Air Force space strategist Peter Garretson, an expert in planetary defense told Politico .
EarthSky | Piece of the moon? Asteroid might have lunar origin
Did you know that Earth has a tiny quasi-satellite called Kamo'oalewa ? It's a near-Earth asteroid that remains fairly close to Earth in its orbit around the sun.
That is the focus of a new peer-reviewed paper that Communications Earth and Environment ( Nature ) published on November 11, 2021.
Asteroid three times bigger than Big Ben to zoom past Earth
New Delhi : An asteroid believed to be three times the size of the Big Ben is likely to zoom past Earth on Sunday, reported NASA .
The asteroid is travelling at a speed of 18,000 miles per hour, the Apollo-class asteroid called 3361 Orpheus is 984 feet wide and is currently on the US space agency's "Close Approach" list.
Asteroid's insides to be examined by ESA radar satellite probe - The Jerusalem Post
'Over the moon': Eastern Ontario astronomers recognized with asteroid names | CBC News
On Nov. 8, the International Astronomical Union's naming working group for small bodies released the new names of 40 asteroids — something it does about once a month.
In this bunch Ottawa-area astronomer Roger Hill recognized all the names, including his own. A handful of asteroids were named after amateur Ontario astronomers who'd worked with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
SpaceX schedules next Starlink launch, fires up rocket for asteroid redirect mission
Update: SpaceX has successfully static fired the Falcon 9 tasked with launching DART. The rocket will now roll back to SLC-4’s integration hangar for payload installation before rolling out to the pad a second time.
NASA will intentionally crash the DART spacecraft into an asteroid to see if that is an effective way to change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the future
NASA will launch the Double Asteroid Redirection Test this week | The Canberra Times | Canberra,
Imagine a new asteroid, a kilometre in size, is detected. After a few measurements, astronomers determine its orbit will cross the path of Earth and has a high chance of colliding with Earth. What do we do?
Do we find Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, call a whacky Steve Buscemi and play a little Aerosmith? No. We call on DART.
Local teachers become certified to bring real space samples into the classroom
On Saturday, 11 local high school teachers got to examine samples of materials collected from the moon, Mars, and asteroids at a NASA-led workshop.
The workshop, hosted at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, gave these teachers the opportunity to earn certification to bring these real moon rocks and meteorites back to their classrooms.
Not Saying It Was Aliens, but 'Oumuamua Probably Wasn't a Nitrogen Iceberg…
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, `Oumuamua. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
On October 19 th , 2017 , astronomers made the first-ever detection of an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System. Designated 1I/2017 U1′ Oumuamua, this object confounded astronomers who could not determine if it was an interstellar comet or an asteroid.
Happening on Twitter
NASA wants to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid, but don't worry. Earth isn't at risk. https://t.co/Iz4IBsb9CW https://t.co/JaNRVJuKZ2 SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Fri Nov 19 21:45:00 +0000 2021
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