'Bizarre' Psyche asteroid may be less heavy metal, more hard rock - Futurity
The asteroid 16 Psyche may be less heavy metal and more hard rock than scientists thought, according to a new study.
NASA intends to visit Psyche with a spacecraft in 2026. The asteroid orbits the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is the largest of the M-type asteroids, which are composed chiefly of iron and nickel as opposed to the silicate rocks that make up most other asteroids.
ASTEROID DAY RETURNS TO LUXEMBOURG WITH ASTRONAUTS SPEAKING ABOUT ASTEROIDS AND NEW-SPACE TECHNOLOGY
LUXEMBOURG , Feb. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asteroid Foundation's annual Asteroid Day activities will return to Luxembourg June 29 through July 2nd .
A foretaste of this technique was given by the dust fragments returned from the stony asteroid Itokawa by the Japanese mission Hayabusa in 2011. Most recently, the Hayabusa 2 mission landed samples from carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu in Australia in December 2020 .
Astronomers Find First-Ever Quadruple Asteroid | Sci-News.com
Astronomers have discovered a third moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid (130) Elektra , making it the first quadruple asteroid ever found.
This image, taken by the SPHERE/IFS instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in 2016, shows three satellites (S1 in red circle, S2 in green, and S3 in blue) of the main-belt asteroid (130) Elektra. Image credit: Berdeu et al ., doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142623.
Italy's Nobel Prize winner Parisi has asteroid named after him
An asteroid has been named after Italy's Nobel Prize winning scientist Giorgio Parisi who said he is "moved and excited" at the news.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved the name after a proposal from the CCAF astronomy club in Farra d'Isonzo, a town in the north Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
OUR SPACE: Psyche – a journey to a metal world | Opinion | unionrecorder.com
Now that the James Webb Space Telescope is safely zipping around its LaGrange orbit a cool million miles away from Earth we can turn our attention to other missions, both in progress and coming later this year.
NASA's Psyche mission to a distant metal asteroid will carry a revolutionary Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) package.
Word of the Day: impart - The New York Times
The word impart has appeared in 66 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 24 in " NASA Launches New Mission: Crash Into Asteroid, Defend Planet Earth " by Joey Roulette:
The test, if successful, will give NASA a confirmed weapon in its planetary-defense arsenal. But for asteroids bigger than Dimorphos, other conceptual deflection methods might be more fitting, astronomers say.
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