A massive asteroid over a mile wide is expected to make a closer-than-normal trip past the Earth near the end of May, an approach so close that it could be spotted in the sky.
Asteroids fly past the Earth on a regular basis, but Asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) is bigger than many of them, measuring 1.1 miles (5,900 feet) across.
The vital telescopes discovering Earth-threatening asteroids | Mashable
When you're fast asleep at night, telescopes atop lofty mountains continually sleuth out unknown space rocks that might fly close to Earth, or even potentially hit us.
Congress directs NASA to find and track the asteroids and comets that swoop into our cosmic neighborhood, meaning some 30 million miles from Earth's orbit around the sun. They're aptly named "near-Earth objects," or NEOs, and thousands of sizable ones are thought to remain undiscovered.
First Human Landing On An Asteroid by 2073, Say Scientists | Discover Magazine
The first human space mission to the Asteroid Belt could take place within 50 years, say rocket engineers, provided humans reach Mars by 2038.
The goal of Jonathan Jiang at the Jet Propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, and colleagues, was to work out a timeframe over which crewed missions to the Asteroid Belt, to Jupiter and even to Saturn might take place.
Dutch asteroid mining startup considering Denver for headquarters
The Colorado School of Mines in the fall of 2018 became the first university in the nation to offer advanced degrees in space resources , and that focus looks like it is paying off by drawing the attention of firms in the emerging field.
Karman+, a space mining startup based in the Netherlands, is looking to plant its flag in either Denver, the United Kingdom or Luxembourg.
NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft observed May 15-16 lunar eclipse from 64 million miles away: ...
NASA's asteroid hunter, Lucy, observed the May 15-16 total lunar eclipse from 64 million miles (100 million km) away - that's nearly 70% of the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
Launched in October 2021, the Lucy mission's key objective is to observe one main belt asteroid and seven Trojan asteroids that share an orbit around the Sun with Jupiter, making it NASA's first single spacecraft mission in history to explore so many different asteroids.
The Truth About Wes Anderson And Bill Murray's Friendship
Hollywood is the home of many iconic actor-director pairings that have pushed the envelope of groundbreaking cinema. Bill Murray and Wes Anderson — longtime buddies, fellow oddballs, and film geniuses — are one such duo.
So long has Murray hung around Anderson's sets that he has assumed the role as something of a chieftain leading the director's ensembles in every film — "I welcome others to come in, and I try to inform them of the rules of the place and how they have to behave," he said at Cannes.
Spectacular fireball meteorite from space lands in Wales and people are being urged to look for it ...
It was recorded by more than 25 meteor cameras coordinated by the UK Fireball Alliance, as well as several security cameras and dashcams belonging to members of the public.
Sightings of fireball meteors are rare, even though several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur in the Earth's atmosphere every day, according to International Meteor Organization.
Webb Telescope nearly set to explore the solar system - ScienceBlog.com
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on technical operations of the observatory.
Webb needs to be able to lock on to these objects and track them with sufficient precision to obtain images and spectra. The Webb team recently completed the first test to track a moving object. The test verified that Webb could conduct moving target science!
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