RedOrbit How NASA’s plan to capture an asteroid is crucial to human survivalGizmodoNASA is committed to grab an asteroid and put it into lunar orbit in the 2020s, using a robotic system to throw a 40-foot (12-meter) rock into a…
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Massive 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid To Fly Over Earth (And You Can Watch … – Huffington Post UK
Massive ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid To Fly Over Earth (And You Can Watch …Huffington Post UK“We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids—sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth. Slooh’s asteroid research campaign is gathering momentum with…
One Year After Chelyabinsk, NASA Looks To Track Near-Earth Objects – RedOrbit
RedOrbit One Year After Chelyabinsk, NASA Looks To Track Near-Earth ObjectsRedOrbitImage Caption: This concept image shows an astronaut preparing to take samples from the captured asteroid after it has been relocated to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system. Hundreds…
Planning a Planetary Defense Against Asteroids – Newsweek
Newsweek Planning a Planetary Defense Against AsteroidsNewsweekIn 1990, a NASA scientist named David Morrison wanted to know his chances of being killed by an asteroid. It seemed a bit paranoid. After all, no one had ever been killed that way,…
NASA's On Alert For Big Scary Asteroids. What About Smaller Ones? – NPR
NPR NASA’s On Alert For Big Scary Asteroids. What About Smaller Ones?NPREarth is under constant bombardment from asteroids and comets. A recent reminder of that occurred one year ago today when an asteroid plunged into Earth’s atmosphere, exploding over the…
Latest Tool to Fight Cancer Is a Crowdsourcing 'Asteroids'-Like Mobile Game – Singularity Hub
Latest Tool to Fight Cancer Is a Crowdsourcing ‘Asteroids‘-Like Mobile GameSingularity HubThey’ve gussied the DNA microarrays up as “Element Alpha” and invited video gamers to navigate their way through it to earn maximum points while simultaneously shooting down asteroids. “Racking…
Potentially hazardous asteroid 2000 EM26 zipping by Earth on close approach … – Phys.Org
Potentially hazardous asteroid 2000 EM26 zipping by Earth on close approach …Phys.OrgOn February 17th a near-Earth asteroid (NEA), 2000 EM26, with an estimated diameter of three football fields (270 meters) and traveling at approximately 27,000 mph (12.37 km/s), will come…
How Nuclear Bombs Could Save Earth from Killer Asteroids – Space.com
Space.com How Nuclear Bombs Could Save Earth from Killer AsteroidsSpace.comThe most destructive weapon humanity has ever developed could help our species avoid going the way of the dinosaurs. Pretty much any asteroid that poses a threat to Earth can be…
Asteroids, comets threaten humanity: protection system is much-needed – physicist – The Voice of Russia
Space.com Asteroids, comets threaten humanity: protection system is much-needed – physicistThe Voice of RussiaThe meteorite, which exploded in the sky above Russia’s Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013, has confirmed the need to create a protection system from asteroids and comets,…
NASA report: How to defend Earth from asteroids – CBS News
Space.com NASA report: How to defend Earth from asteroidsCBS NewsNASA’s Asteroid Initiative, started in 2013, includes a mission to capture a small near-Earth asteroid and drag it into a stable orbit around the moon, and a challenge to devise the…