Rocks around the clock: asteroids pound tiny starPhys.Org“This sort of dust disk could provide the ‘seeds’ that grow into larger asteroids,” said Mr Paul Brook, a PhD student co-supervised by the University of Oxford and CSIRO who led the study…
Incoming 'Moby Dick' asteroid goes missing near Earth – New Scientist
ExtremeTech Incoming ‘Moby Dick’ asteroid goes missing near EarthNew ScientistA whale of an asteroid has gone missing. The 270-metre space rock known as 2000 EM26 was slated to skim past Earth early on 18 February, coming within 3.4 million kilometres…
Defending the Earth from asteroids with high-powered nuclear explosions – ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech Defending the Earth from asteroids with high-powered nuclear explosionsExtremeTechIn the wake of that event, governments have paid more attention to an inevitable eventual Earth-asteroid collision. While funding for asteroid detection methods has inched up for several years, the question…
How to Stop New ICANN Rule From Shutting Your Website Down – BusinessNewsDaily
BusinessNewsDaily How to Stop New ICANN Rule From Shutting Your Website DownBusinessNewsDailyImagine if your website were to get shut down by your domain registrar. Thanks to a new requirement by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) —…
A close call in space tonight: Asteroid zips by Earth – CNN
Telegraph.co.uk A close call in space tonight: Asteroid zips by EarthCNN“On a practical level, a previously unknown, undiscovered asteroid seems to hit our planet and cause damage or injury once a century or so, as we witnessed on June 20,…
Giant asteroid could help scientists deflect life-threatening objects – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk Giant asteroid could help scientists deflect life-threatening objectsTelegraph.co.ukDr Massey said that the 2000 EM26 asteroid could help scientists understand the behaviour of potentially fatal asteroids: “With this object scientists can find of what asteroids are made of close up…