Distant asteroid revealed to be a complex mini geological worldPhys.OrgAfter 8 years of observations, scientists from the SETI Institute have found an exotic orbit for the largest Trojan asteroid, (624) Hektor—the only one known to possess a moon. The formation…
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This Is What 100000 Asteroids Look Like As They Orbit The Sun (VIDEO) – Huffington Post UK
This Is What 100000 Asteroids Look Like As They Orbit The Sun (VIDEO)Huffington Post UKThe video is not 100% accurate – the main Trojan and Asteroid Belt rocks are shown with precise orbits, but we do not track anywhere near…
Asteroid Imaged By NASA Scientists Using Deep Space Network – RedOrbit
RedOrbit Asteroid Imaged By NASA Scientists Using Deep Space NetworkRedOrbitA collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2006 DP14 was generated by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on the night of Feb.…
NASA turns to an old-fashioned technology in the hunt for asteroids – io9
RedOrbit NASA turns to an old-fashioned technology in the hunt for asteroidsio9Behold the peanut-shaped Asteroid 2006 DP14, a 1,300-foot (400-meter) long object that recently flew past Earth. The asteroid was scanned with Doppler radar — a tried-and-true technology that’s helping…
Huge Peanut-Shaped Asteroid Buzzes Earth in NASA Video – Space.com
Huge Peanut-Shaped Asteroid Buzzes Earth in NASA VideoSpace.comA large asteroid shaped like a cosmic peanut zipped safely by Earth this month, and a new NASA video retells the entire space rock encounter as it happened using impressive radar images. Scientists…
Radar Images of near-Earth Asteroid 2006 DP14 – Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Radar Images of near-Earth Asteroid 2006 DP14Jet Propulsion LaboratoryAsteroid 2006 DP14 in Radar Image This image is one frame from a collage of radar images taken on Feb. 11, 2014, of near-Earth asteroid 2006 DP 14, which…
Moon struck by 'extraordinary' asteroid blast – USA TODAY
Sydney Morning Herald Moon struck by ‘extraordinary’ asteroid blastUSA TODAYA car-size asteroid smashed into the moon last year and left the longest-ever afterglow for a lunar impact ever seen — one big enough to be spotted by the naked eye…
Fridge-sized asteroid smashes in to moon in largest lunar collision ever recorded – Daily Mail
Daily Mail Fridge-sized asteroid smashes in to moon in largest lunar collision ever recordedDaily MailA fridge-sized asteroid has crashed into the Moon, in the largest lunar collision with a space rock ever captured on video. Incredible video footage has emerged…
Watch The Colorful Dance of a Hundred Thousand Asteroids – Slate Magazine (blog)
Watch The Colorful Dance of a Hundred Thousand AsteroidsSlate Magazine (blog)Now he’s gone and done something both astonishingly beautiful and scientifically fascinating: He took the asteroids in the solar system observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey—over 100,000 of them!–…
Tracking asteroids close to Earth – Washington Post
Tracking asteroids close to EarthWashington PostTracking asteroids close to Earth. 03:03. February 24, 2014 11:31 AM EST — Scientists use advanced technologies to track asteroids and comets that have the potential to one day come close to Earth. (NASA/JPL) …