A building-sized asteroid whizzed by our planet overnight into Monday (May 9) and at a very safe distance, just like all the other giant space rocks we know of.
The asteroid , known officially as 467460 (2006 JF42), came within 14 Earth-moon distances of our planet, according to data from the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In real terms, that's roughly 3.5 million miles (5.7 million kilometers) from our ...
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Bits of an asteroid appear to confirm what astronomers could see through their telescopes: it's dark, it's rich in carbon, and it's a relic from the early solar system.
A Japanese spacecraft, Hyabusa 2, collected the samples in 2019. It made contact with the asteroid Ryugu, knocking tiny grains off the surface. The craft caught about five grams of that material, which it dropped off at Earth in 2020.
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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
This is one of the weirdest things it does, and that's saying something. Bennu is a small asteroid, only a little over 500 meters wide. It's shaped like two cones stuck together base-to-base . It's not a solid rock but is instead a rubble pile, like a bag of rocks held together by gravity.
Global citizen science project finds more than 1,700 asteroid trails in Hubble images
The astronomers collectively identified more than 37,000 composite images taken between April 2002 and March 2021 with Hubble's ACS and WFC3 instruments. With a typical observation time of 30 minutes, asteroid trails appear as curved lines or streaks in these images.
Roughly one third of the asteroid trails seen could be identified and attributed to known asteroids in the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre, the largest database of solar system objects.
Psyche asteroid explorer arrives at Kennedy Space Center for launch preps – Spaceflight Now
A U.S. military cargo plane delivered NASA’s Psyche spacecraft from California to the Kennedy Space Center last week, starting a three-month campaign to ready the asteroid explorer for liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in August.
The launch preparations at Kennedy will include loading of more than a ton of xenon gas into the Psyche spacecraft, followed by encapsulation of the probe inside SpaceX’s payload fairing before rolling out to pad 39A for integration with a Falcon Heavy launcher.
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NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been on the red planet since 2012, will continue to explore the surface of Mars. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
NASA recently announced the extension of eight of its planetary missions. These have been evaluated for their scientific productivity and most will be extended at least three years as long as the spacecraft remain healthy.
The Sky This Week from May 6 to 13 | Astronomy.com
Friday, May 6
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks early this morning. The best time to catch its shooting stars is a few hours before dawn, when the radiant in Aquarius is highest in a moonless sky.
Eta Aquariid meteors are born from dust left in the inner solar system by Halley’s Comet. When Earth passes through this trail, which sits along the comet’s orbit, we experience a meteor shower.
A giant asteroid safely zoomed past us overnight https://t.co/NyNAeMB20l https://t.co/igpyjvQCgC SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Mon May 09 17:54:43 +0000 2022
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