Space agency to cause collision with Dimorphos to test if it can avert sci-fi fears of catastrophic impact with Earth
The aim of this kamikaze science mission is straightforward: space engineers want to learn how to deflect asteroids in case one is ever discovered on a collision course with Earth.
Giant solar sail will propel tiny spacecraft to intercept and study asteroid – Spaceflight Now
Catching a ride on Artemis 1 is a miniaturized CubeSat called NEA Scout that will use a thin, aluminum-coated solar sail about the size of a tennis court to propel it towards the smallest asteroid ever to be studied by a spacecraft.
NEA Scout will serve as a bold robotic reconnaissance mission to fly by and return data from an asteroid representative of near-Earth asteroids that may one day become destinations for humans.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Class X student Kyvalya Reddy identifies Asteroid
KAKINADA: Class X student Kunchala Kyvalya Reddy (14) of Nidadavole in East Godavari district, studying in a private school, bagged a certificate for identifying Main-Belt Asteroid 2021 CM 37 from International Asteroid Search Collaboration (IASC), a partner with NASA worldwide.
How an astroinformatics bootcamp is making the universe accessible – The NAU Review
The room is large, with half a dozen students spaced out from one end to the other. It's overcast outside, and the lights are dimmed inside.
A casual observer might not suspect that those students were answering the questions of the universe and asking a few of their own at the same time.
Hunt for rare meteorite begins after spectacular fireball over Otago - NZ Herald
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Scientists are searching for a meteorite that fell to the ground after a spectacular fireball lit up the sky over Otago. Video / Supplied
The meteorite dropped somewhere southeast of Middlemarch and west of Outram near Dunedin, Fireballs Aotearoa scientists said.
2022-09-02 - Just Extra • Damn Interesting
Electric flight, Levitating nanoparticles, Asteroid smashing, Doppelganger genetics, Embryonic formation, Mucosal evolution, Meal worm meals, Burn-based timekeeping.
A planet will be named after St Petersburg University
With assistance of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences a minor planet was found in the asteroid belt, and St Petersburg University was proposed to name it.
Options for naming the planet were discussed at the meeting of the St Petersburg University Collegium of Honorary Professors . Following discussions, the Collegium of Honorary Professors proposed two names: "Alma Mater 1724" and "Petrocollegium".
The sixth mass extinction threatens Minnesota's natural legacy — and an army of defenders are ...
An occasional series in the Star Tribune documenting the biodiversity crisis and the people struggling to head off extinction for Minnesota's most vulnerable animals and plants.
Road crews were already in full swing when Husveth pulled up. Mustard-colored bulldozers and backhoes roared back and forth on one half of the highway. Motorists zoomed by on the other.
" Poetic Reflections" | Ponca City News
We're one of many billions upon billions of spheres spinning in a spacious dark void, Hoping another spinning ball doesn't collide with us, or we're hit by a falling asteroid.
The sun is hung in space, and we revolve on an arching path, true for 4.5 billion years, At the same time, we're revolving, we're also rotating, but that's not how it appears.
Nasa to crash $330m spacecraft into asteroid to see if impact can alter course https://t.co/yvnHDt6q7K guardian (from London) Sat Sep 03 13:02:51 +0000 2022
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