Wayward asteroids are in Ray’s sightsWestern AdvocateMr Pickard said this kind of asteroid research is mostly carried out in the northern hemisphere, but Australia is ideally situated for it. The amateur astronomer came to the notice of the space agency…
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Rare, Eclipsing Binary Asteroids Discovered by Undergraduate Astronomy Class – Nature World News
Nature World News Rare, Eclipsing Binary Asteroids Discovered by Undergraduate Astronomy ClassNature World NewsA team of undergraduate students taking an astronomy lab course unwittingly made a valuable scientific observation when they chose to study the asteroid 3905 Doppler, discovering that…
NASA Slowly Amassing List of Potential Targets for Asteroid Retrieval Mission – Space News
Space News NASA Slowly Amassing List of Potential Targets for Asteroid Retrieval MissionSpace NewsWASHINGTON — NASA has identified about a dozen potential targets for its proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission, but will make no decision until at least 2017 about which…
Undergraduates discover rare eclipsing double asteroid – Phys.Org
Space Fellowship Undergraduates discover rare eclipsing double asteroidPhys.OrgFewer than 100 asteroids of this type have been identified in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, said Melissa Hayes-Gehrke, who teaches the hands-on class for non-astronomy majors in which eight…
Robotic space gripper designed to latch to asteroids – CBC.ca
Robotic space gripper designed to latch to asteroidsCBC.caScientists with NASA have developed a robotic arm designed to help astronauts in future spacewalks get a grip on rough surfaces such as asteroids and comets. The human-powered automatic gripper can also hold…
Asteroid Hunter Returns First Images after Reactivation – Astrobiology Magazine (press release)
Astrobiology Magazine (press release) Asteroid Hunter Returns First Images after ReactivationAstrobiology Magazine (press release)NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), a spacecraft that made the most comprehensive survey to date of asteroids and comets, has returned its first set…
Second asteroid detected before it hit the Earth – Sen – Space exploration network
Second asteroid detected before it hit the EarthSen – Space exploration networkA similar-sized asteroid became the first to be found in advance in a similar way a little over five years ago, again by Kowalski using the 1.5-metre telescope on…
Powering Starships with Compact Condensed Quark Matter from local very fast … – Next Big Future
Powering Starships with Compact Condensed Quark Matter from local very fast …Next Big FutureThis hypothesis implies a relic CCO population in the Solar System, captured during its formation, which would lead to a population of “strange asteroids,” bodies with mm-radii…
We Saw It Coming: Dinky Asteroid Hits Earth, Burns Up – Discovery News
Space Ref (press release) We Saw It Coming: Dinky Asteroid Hits Earth, Burns UpDiscovery NewsFor only the second time in history, an asteroid has hit Earth that was discovered hours before impact. But don’t panic! The asteroid didn’t put a…
Tiny Asteroid Discovered Just Yesterday “Virtually Certain” to Have Harmlessly … – Slate Magazine (blog)
SkyandTelescope.com Tiny Asteroid Discovered Just Yesterday “Virtually Certain” to Have Harmlessly …Slate Magazine (blog)For just the second time in history, an asteroid was discovered before it impacted the Earth. Don’t panic: It was very small, probably just a few meters…