NASA is keeping a watchful eye on an asteroid that will make a knee-wobbling close pass of Earth on Thursday.
The space rock 2008 AG33 is up to 2,560 feet long, making it twice the size of the Empire State Building.
The asteroid has been added to NASA’s “Close Approaches” database , which tracks thousands of so-called near-Earth objects (NEOs).
Psyche asteroid spacecraft passes shake-and-bake test | Space
NASA's Psyche asteroid probe clean room in California is seeing a lot of action these days as the spacecraft gets set for its launch in August.
On top of engineers subjecting the asteroid -bound mission to "shake-and-bake" procedures, the spacecraft got visitors from the media at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena.
China plans asteroid deflection test mission in 2025: report | Space
China is planning a kinetic asteroid defense mission no earlier than 2025 as part of a larger set of planetary shielding planning initiatives, according to a news report.
The China National Space Administration 's spacecraft will slam into a so-far unidentified potentially hazardous asteroid and attempt to alter its orbit, according to a SpaceNews report .
Asteroid whisperer | MIT Technology Review
"One of the things I really like about studying asteroids is how little we know about them," he says.
Rivkin, who studied Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences as an undergrad at MIT, is now a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
The team is actively testing the technique on the asteroid Didymos and its small moon Dimorphos. The DART probe launched on November 24, 2021, on a SpaceX Falcon 9, and the plan is to smash it into Dimorphos to see how the impact changes its orbit. Impact is expected on September 26, 2022.
We're the dinosaurs, but we're our own asteroid – Boston University News Service
In February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a statement, warning the public about the irreversible effects of climate change. It emphasized that everyone needs to take an action immediately to ensure a sustainable future.
Some people believe that climate change is a large-scale problem and that their individual efforts are worthless. While human-induced climate change is not reversible, global efforts can still slow it down and preserve the planet for future generations.
Space: Asteroids may have brought DNA foundation to Earth, study says
DNA didn't likely form in an asteroid, researchers say, but the delivery of these genetic building blocks in asteroids could have helped lead to its development here.
In earlier experiments, researchers found the nucleobases adenine, guanine, and uracil by placing asteroid grains in a "meteorite tea" to extract substances into a solution, which was then analyzed.
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NASA to extend OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for a mission to a second asteroid - AZPM
NASA has announced it will extend the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-Rex mission after it returns to earth next year.
OSIRIS-REx will still swing by Earth in September 2023 as planned, but after dropping a capsule of samples collected from asteroid Bennu last year, it will remain in space to rendezvous with another asteroid, named Apophis.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe will visit a second asteroid
Apophis originally drew interest over fears it would strike the Earth in 2029. Researchers put that worry to rest, but it's still a highly valuable subject.
The extension won't come cheap. A visit to Apophis will add $200 million to the cost ceiling of a mission that's already expected to cost $1.16 billion. Even so, it might be worthwhile if it helps humanity better understand asteroids and the risks they may pose to Earth.
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