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!–…
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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) …
Video shows asteroid smashing into moon – NEWS.com.au
Video shows asteroid smashing into moonNEWS.com.auA SPANISH astronomer has released video of what he says is a fridge-sized asteroid smash into the Moon, in the biggest lunar impact by a space rock ever recorded. The rare episode was seen by…
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!–…
Incredible Technology: Space 'Harpoons' Could Snatch Samples of Asteroids … – Space.com
Incredible Technology: Space ‘Harpoons’ Could Snatch Samples of Asteroids …Space.comWhy bother landing softly on an alien world to collect samples if you can just snag material with a harpoon from afar? Using a set of long-lined, hard-hitting harpoons would allow…
Astronomers watch in horror as a poor pulsar gets pummeled by asteroids … – Tech Times
Tech Times Astronomers watch in horror as a poor pulsar gets pummeled by asteroids …Tech TimesScientists have discovered an incident involving a group of asteroids, including a billion ton bully, pounding a pulsar 37,000 light years away, using a powerful…
An Incredible Visualization of Asteroids from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey – Universe Today
An Incredible Visualization of Asteroids from the Sloan Digital Sky SurveyUniverse TodayWho knew asteroids could be so beautiful and mesmerizing? In 2008, a group of astronomers led by Alex Parker did a study of the size distribution of asteroid families…
NASA takes major step in hunt for asteroids – RT (blog)
RT (blog) NASA takes major step in hunt for asteroidsRT (blog)NASA’s mission to reel in an asteroid took an important step forward when the agency recently established a new “rapid response system” intended to pinpoint the most eligible targets for…
Rocks around the clock: Asteroids pound tiny star – TG Daily
Nature World News Rocks around the clock: Asteroids pound tiny starTG DailyScientists using CSIRO’s Parkes telescope and another telescope in South Africa have found evidence that a tiny star called PSR J0738-4042 is being pounded by asteroids — large lumps…
It's Raining Asteroids on a Tiny Star – Nature World News
Nature World News It’s Raining Asteroids on a Tiny StarNature World NewsA tiny star, called PSR J0738-4042, is being pounded by asteroids, according to scientists observing the star using the Parkes Telescope operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and…