RT NASA warns of ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroidRTThis artist’s concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In September of 2013, engineers will attempt to bring the mission out of hibernation to hunt for…
NASA Finds New Asteroid Headed in Our Direction – TIME
RT NASA Finds New Asteroid Headed in Our DirectionTIMEThe asteroid, named “2013 YP139″, is very dark, 0.4 miles across, and could come almost as close to the Earth as our moon, based on current projections. The rock has earned NASA’s…
Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid – SpaceDaily – Space Daily
Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid – SpaceDailySpace DailyNEOWISE will continue to detect asteroids and comets. The observations will be automatically sent to the clearinghouse for solar system bodies, the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., for…
Recently reactivated NASA spacecraft spots its first new asteroid – Astronomy Magazine
Recently reactivated NASA spacecraft spots its first new asteroidAstronomy MagazineThe six red dots in this composite picture indicate the location of the first new near-Earth asteroid seen by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) since the spacecraft came…
Undergrad class finds pair of twinned, eclipsing asteroids – Geek
Geek Undergrad class finds pair of twinned, eclipsing asteroidsGeekYou might not think something like an asteroid has the capacity to be overly interesting. They’re too small to maintain an atmosphere, they’re often made up of only a few simple materials,…
There may only be 10 near-Earth asteroids worth mining – Geek
Geek There may only be 10 near-Earth asteroids worth miningGeekPlanetary Resources made waves last year when it announced plans to mine asteroids, but a new analysis by scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge might put a damper…