Laboratory Equipment Bizarre Orbit of Weird Asteroid’s Moon RevealedDiscovery NewsNASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbited the massive asteroid Vesta in 2011 and 2012, giving us an unprecedented look at the protoplanet’s landscape, craters and mineral composition. The probe, which is now on…
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Distant asteroid revealed to be a complex mini geological world – Phys.Org
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…
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!–…