Jet Propulsion Laboratory Radar Images of near-Earth Asteroid 2006 DP14Jet Propulsion LaboratoryAsteroid 2006 DP14 in Radar Image This image is one frame from a collage of radar images taken on Feb. 11, 2014, of near-Earth asteroid 2006 DP 14, which…
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Moon struck by 'extraordinary' asteroid blast – USA TODAY
Sydney Morning Herald Moon struck by ‘extraordinary’ asteroid blastUSA TODAYA car-size asteroid smashed into the moon last year and left the longest-ever afterglow for a lunar impact ever seen — one big enough to be spotted by the naked eye…
Fridge-sized asteroid smashes in to moon in largest lunar collision ever recorded – Daily Mail
Daily Mail Fridge-sized asteroid smashes in to moon in largest lunar collision ever recordedDaily MailA fridge-sized asteroid has crashed into the Moon, in the largest lunar collision with a space rock ever captured on video. Incredible video footage has emerged…
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!–…
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…