RT NASA warns of ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroidRTThis artist’s concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In September of 2013, engineers will attempt to bring the mission out of hibernation to hunt for…
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NASA Finds New Asteroid Headed in Our Direction – TIME
RT NASA Finds New Asteroid Headed in Our DirectionTIMEThe asteroid, named “2013 YP139″, is very dark, 0.4 miles across, and could come almost as close to the Earth as our moon, based on current projections. The rock has earned NASA’s…
Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid – SpaceDaily – Space Daily
Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid – SpaceDailySpace DailyNEOWISE will continue to detect asteroids and comets. The observations will be automatically sent to the clearinghouse for solar system bodies, the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., for…
Recently reactivated NASA spacecraft spots its first new asteroid – Astronomy Magazine
Recently reactivated NASA spacecraft spots its first new asteroidAstronomy MagazineThe six red dots in this composite picture indicate the location of the first new near-Earth asteroid seen by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) since the spacecraft came…
Undergrad class finds pair of twinned, eclipsing asteroids – Geek
Geek Undergrad class finds pair of twinned, eclipsing asteroidsGeekYou might not think something like an asteroid has the capacity to be overly interesting. They’re too small to maintain an atmosphere, they’re often made up of only a few simple materials,…
There may only be 10 near-Earth asteroids worth mining – Geek
Geek There may only be 10 near-Earth asteroids worth miningGeekPlanetary Resources made waves last year when it announced plans to mine asteroids, but a new analysis by scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge might put a damper…
Jonathan Haidt: It helps if you can see the other side's asteroids – Tallahassee.com
Jonathan Haidt: It helps if you can see the other side’s asteroidsTallahassee.comThe asteroids are coming! OK, I don’t mean literal asteroids made of rock and metal. I mean big problems that polarize us and therefore paralyze us. If you’re on…
Nasa spacecraft spots 'potentially hazardous' new asteroid – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk Nasa spacecraft spots ‘potentially hazardous’ new asteroidTelegraph.co.ukThe new asteroid is the first discovery by the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) since the spacecraft came out of hibernation last year. The rock, named 2013 YP139, is approximately 27…
US undergraduates impress astronomers with asteroid discovery – UPI.com
UPI.com US undergraduates impress astronomers with asteroid discoveryUPI.comThe students in an undergraduate astronomy class confirmed that a previously unstudied asteroid, dubbed 3905 Doppler, is in fact two asteroids gravitationally tied to each other, the university reported Tuesday. Fewer than 100…
'Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid' Discovered By Group Of Undergrads – Headlines & Global News
Headlines & Global News ‘Rare Eclipsing Double Asteroid‘ Discovered By Group Of UndergradsHeadlines & Global NewsThe class observed the asteroid through a telescope in Spain that they were able to access over the internet. Their assignment was to document intensities…