It seems to be that we are always hearing about rogue asteroids that are on a collision course with Earth.
While it may seem a bit silly to think about an asteroid hitting the planet in 2052, the 2021 QM1 hitting Earth would be devastating. The asteroid is said to be 50 meters or 150 feet in diameter. Should it impact, it would have a force of six tons of TNT.
Largest asteroid to fly by Earth this year spotted by radar | Space
NASA has shared a new collection of images of the mile-wide asteroid pair that passed safely by Earth in May.
On May 27, asteroid 1989 JA flew within 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) of our planet, or about 10 times the distance between Earth and the moon .
Asteroid sample offers clues to the origins of our solar system – Physics World
The chemical composition of samples collected from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu are strikingly similar to that of the Sun, say members of a team tasked with analysing samples of Ryugu collected by the Hayabusa2 mission.
Ryugu was first detected by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project in 1999. It is diamond-shaped, rotates every 7.6 hours, and orbits the Sun between the Earth and Mars.
China to target near-Earth object 2020 PN1 for asteroid deflection mission - SpaceNews
HELSINKI — China has set its sights on near-Earth object 202 PN1 as the target for a combined asteroid deflection and observation test mission due to launch in 2026.
The new details of the near-Earth asteroid defense system demonstration and verification test mission were presented by Long Lehao, chief designer of China's Long March rocket series, in a recent "Science and Innovation China" series lecture ( video in Chinese).
Asteroid hunters name space rock for Distinguished Professor Roy Kerr – India Education | ...
"The naming of an asteroid is an honour in the way that naming a geographical feature after someone is an honour," Gilmore says.
The asteroid they named recently for Canterbury Distinguished Professor Roy Kerr – Asteroid (5718) Roykerr – is around 3km in diameter. It is in the Main Belt of asteroids, averaging 2.21 AU, 332million-km distance from the Sun. It does one orbit in 3.3 years.
We've Finally Pinpointed The Precise Spot on Mars This Famous Meteorite Came From
Millions of years ago, an epic journey began from Mars . A giant asteroid slammed into the surface, gouging out chunks of the Martian crust and hurling them into space.
In 2011, one of those chunks of rock was fished out of the Sahara Desert. Its trajectory had carried it, by chance, all the way to Earth (that, or Mars deliberately started throwing rocks at us).
Equivalent to 1,800 tonnes of TNT: what we now know about the meteor that lit up the daytime sky ...
Lecturer in Astronomy, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury
James Scott receives funding from the MBIE Participatory Science Platform to build and deploy nightsky cameras across Otago.
Michele Bannister receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi to explore small worlds throughout the Solar System.
Voyager 1 and 2 Spacecraft Enter Final Phase of Their Mission | Planetary News
NASA engineers will meet next month to discuss the possibility of shutting down scientific instruments to conserve power on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft after 44 years of service.
Driven by a cosmic alignment that occurs every 176 years, NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft in 1977 to take advantage of a fortuitous alignment of the outer planets that lessened travel time to Neptune from 30 to 12 years.
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