In the sci-fi comedy “Don’t Look Up”, humanity has just six months to avert the destruction of Earth by a 10-kilometer wide asteroid.
In a recent study, scientists at the University of California analysed how mankind might swerve extinction-by-asteroid.
Trojan Asteroid That Will Follow Earth in Orbit for 4,000 Years Discovered After a Decade of
Using the 4.1-meter SOAR (Southern Astrophysical Research) Telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile, astronomers have confirmed that an asteroid discovered in 2020 by the Pan-STARRS1 survey, called 2020 XL5, is an Earth Trojan (an Earth companion following the same path around the Sun as Earth
NASA State-of-the-Art Asteroid Tracking System Now Capable of Full Sky Search
From left to right: Sutherland ATLAS station during construction in South Africa. Credit: Willie Koorts (SAAO); Chilean engineers and astronomers installing the ATLAS telescope at El Sauce Observatory.
“An important part of planetary defense is finding asteroids before they find us, so if necessary, we can get them before they get us” said Kelly Fast, Near-Earth Object Observations Program Manager for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
Large, potentially hazardous asteroid to pass near Earth in early March | The Independent
Nasa is tracking an asteroid larger than the world's tallest skyscraper that's expected to pass close to Earth on 4 March.
But though the space agency categorizes the asteroid as "potentially hazardous," the closest the space rock will pass near Earth is around 4.9 million kilometers – well outside the average orbit of the Moon at 385,000 kilometers.
Citizen Scientists Find 1,000+ Asteroids Photobombing Hubble Images - Sky & Telescope - Sky
The combined power of citizen science and machine learning have led to the discovery of more than 1,000 new asteroids in archival images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
More than 1,000 previously unknown asteroids have been found on old Hubble photos — not by professional astronomers, but by citizen scientists and a machine-learning module.
Mars has had a steady asteroid collision rate | SYFY WIRE
Relentless asteroid impacts have scarred the Red Planet. Its surface is obviously pockmarked with craters . What was unknown until now was how often space rocks would crash into it, and for how long those collisions consistently happened.
The visage of Mars is naked, as opposed to Earth, which has plate tectonics going for it. Something like an erupting volcano is going to destroy evidence of collisions by smothering them in magma. Earth's geological features and vast oceans are also covering up many asteroid acne scars.
Scientists discover youngest-known asteroid pair, and they're cosmic babies - CNET
More observations and data could help clear up the asteroids' origin story, but it's going to take time. Fatka said the rocks won't be back in view of the telescopes again until 2033. It will be worth the wait.
JPL Preps Special Space Craft to Check Out Near Earth Asteroid – Pasadena Now
NEA Scout, a spacecraft co-developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, will soon be flying close to an asteroid less than 60 feet in size.
The spacecraft will launch sometime after March 1 as one of 10 secondary payloads aboard the powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket/ The rocket will take off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Asteroid named after Filipino neurosurgeon | Inquirer News
Dr. Jose "Jett" Aguilar in his home observatory. (Photo courtesy of Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre)
MANILA, Philippines — An eight-kilometer-wide asteroid between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter was recently named after a Filipino neurosurgeon.
Dr. Jett Aguilar operates on a young patient at the Philippine Children's Medical Center. (Photo courtesy of Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre)
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