Earth has high risk of asteroid impactArizona Daily WildcatThe Chelyabinsk asteroid wasn’t big enough to cause any catastrophic damage to Earth, and scientists believed a collision of that size would only occur once every few hundred years. However, according to…
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Science arms itself against asteroids – Windsor Star (blog)
Windsor Star (blog) Science arms itself against asteroidsWindsor Star (blog)Jeff Thrasher, a graduate of Holy Names high school in Windsor, is pictured in the High Arctic where he filmed NASA researcher Pascal Lee studying one the largest impact craters on…
Alien-hunting equation revamped for mining asteroids – New Scientist
Alien-hunting equation revamped for mining asteroidsNew ScientistRecent years have seen two US companies – Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries – established with the intent of one day mining space rocks. NASA also has asteroid ambitions, with a plan to…
Miyazaki in the sky with Gundam: Japan's astronomical otaku have been naming … – ROCKETNEWS24
Miyazaki in the sky with Gundam: Japan’s astronomical otaku have been naming …ROCKETNEWS24When a new asteroid is discovered and its orbit is established, the right to name that floating chunk of matter is given to the astronomer who found it.…
NASA Teams With Asteroid-Mining Company to Crowdsource Space Rock Hunt – Space.com
Space.com NASA Teams With Asteroid-Mining Company to Crowdsource Space Rock HuntSpace.comNASA is partnering with the billionaire-backed company Planetary Resources Inc., to launch asteroid-hunting competitions, and they want your help. Then U.S. space agency and the asteroid-mining firm are seeking to…
You Read It Here First: George Will Cites CNN on Global Warming Causing … – NewsBusters (blog)
NewsBusters (blog) You Read It Here First: George Will Cites CNN on Global Warming Causing …NewsBusters (blog)George Will marveled in his column late last week over how “a CNN anchor wondered if an asteroid that passed by Earth on Feb.…
Iowa State University professor has plan to fight off asteroids – Omaha World-Herald
KCRG Iowa State University professor has plan to fight off asteroidsOmaha World-HeraldEngineering professor Bong Wie, who works with a team at the Asteroid Deflection Research Center in Ames, wants to use a nuclear device to stop an asteroid from hurtling…
ISU prof has plan to save humanity from asteroids – kwwl.com
ISU prof has plan to save humanity from asteroidskwwl.comAn Iowa State University professor has a plan for saving humanity from a devastating asteroid collision, and he’ll soon meet with officials at NASA to discuss his proposal. Engineering professor Bong Wie…
Source: AWIN First – Aviation Week
Aviation Week Source: AWIN FirstAviation WeekNASA and startup Planetary Resources, Inc. have formed the first public/private partnership under the space agency’s Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC) initiative to accelerate the search for near-Earth objects (NEOs) that pose a collision threat by…
North Korea plans space missions to Moon, Mars and asteroids – Pravda
BusinessKorea North Korea plans space missions to Moon, Mars and asteroidsPravdaNorth Korea announced an intention to launch its own space rocket no later than in 2020. Reportedly, the National Space Committee of the republic approved the revised space program of…