Planetary scientists attending the first major conference since NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) permanently moved a space rock offered early findings about the asteroid and the impact.
At the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union held last month in Chicago and virtually, DART scientists tweaked that finding just a little, updating the calculation to 33 minutes.
NASA begins work on NEO Surveyor asteroid-hunting space telescope
NEO Surveyor is a new space telescope made to advance NASA's planetary defense efforts by finding near-Earth objects, or NEOs, that make their way into Earth's orbital neighborhood and are capable of causing significant damage.
NASA said in a statement last month that the telescope is designed to discover 90% of asteroids and comets that are 460 feet in size or larger and come within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit.
Asteroid danger! Bus-sized asteroid clocked at just 7038 kmph | Tech News
Most asteroids are irregularly shaped, though a few are nearly spherical, and they are often pitted or cratered? As these space rocks revolve around the Sun in their elliptical orbits, the asteroids also rotate, sometimes quite erratically, tumbling as they go, according to NASA.
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, which keeps an eye on dangerous Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), has red-flagged an asteroid named Asteroid 2022 YL4 due to its extremely close approach to the planet.
2023 Space missions: Asteroid Psyche, SpaceX Starship, Venus and more
SpaceX Starship's first launch is the most expected. It will be from Boca Chica, Texas. Starship is the fully reusable spacecraft and second stage of the Starship system. Launch date not set yet.· (SpaceX)
The Axiom space AX2 will be the second crewed commercial mission of NASA and it will carry 2 NASA and 2 Saudi astronauts to the ISS. (NASA)
NASA chief says 2023 will be a 'game-changing' year for space | Space
The completion of the space agency's Artemis 1 mission , the successful first launch of its new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the return of the uncrewed Orion capsule after its trip around the moon, put a nice bow on the end of NASA's year in 2022.
Former Senator and current NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said as much in a recent video released by NASA at the start of the new year.
How to see the Quadrantids, 1st meteor shower of 2023
The Quadrantids meteor shower (not pictured) can be viewed through Jan. 16. (Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images)
The Quadrantids meteor shower, which peaked Thursday morning, has the potential to be the strongest of the year, but it usually falls short due to its short peak of six hours and the poor weather during the month, according to the American Meteor Society .
Solar-sailing probes may soon get their moment in the sun | Space
Solar sailing can be a relatively slow-motion affair, but progress in the nascent field is quickly gaining steam.
The idea is not to use conventional "gas guzzling" propulsion but rather to employ ever-present and energetic solar photons to travel through space. Over time, this steady thrust from sunlight can accelerate a spacecraft to very high speeds.
What's up in the sky: Meteor showers and a big sun | Guest Columns | dailyrecordnews.com
Saturday, Dec. 31: All of the naked-eye planets are visible tonight. First, look low in the southwestern sky at 5 p.m. Venus is the bright point of light a half of a fist held upright and at arm's length above the southwestern horizon. Mercury is to the lower right of Venus and much dimmer.
Sunday, Jan. 1: Today is the day we celebrate the anniversary of something new – a new classification of celestial objects. Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres [pronounced sear'-ease], the first of what are now called "asteroids", on Jan. 1, 1801.
Space candy: Asteroid smashed by NASA's DART probe looks a bit like an M&M, scientists say https://t.co/MdhkjYMIQ5 https://t.co/NAB0IdE7gy SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Thu Jan 05 17:04:03 +0000 2023
Just a wild year in space. Webb actually worked. NASA smashed into an asteroid. We returned to the freaking Moon. O… https://t.co/8iCunphARU SciGuySpace (from Houston, TX) Sun Jan 01 00:40:08 +0000 2023
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