Unlocking the solar system with water from asteroidsNext Big FutureOver the next 2 years, NASA’s Dawn mission, which has already visited big asteroids such as Vesta, will arrive at Ceres to map the dwarf planet’s surface. And the ESA’s (European…
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The International Hunt For NEOs Begins – RedOrbit
RedOrbit The International Hunt For NEOs BeginsRedOrbitFor the first time, national space agencies from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia will establish an expert group aimed at getting the world’s space-faring nations on the ‘same page’ when it comes to…
Space agencies gearing up against future asteroid strikes – Zee News
ANINEWS Space agencies gearing up against future asteroid strikesZee NewsDetlef Koschny, Head of the NEO Segment in ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme office, said that SMPAG will also develop and refine a set of reference missions that could be…
Space agencies gearing up against future asteroid strikes – Business Standard
Space agencies gearing up against future asteroid strikesBusiness StandardWith a mandate from the UN, space agencies from all over the world are about to establish a high-level group to help coordinate global response should a threatening asteroid ever be found…
Solar System Full of Rogue Asteroids, Say Researchers – The Epoch Times
Solar System Full of Rogue Asteroids, Say ResearchersThe Epoch TimesScientists thought that asteroids were static and stayed closer to the Sun, but new observations over the past 10 years indicate that there’s more “rogue” asteroids–or asteroids that show up in…
Asteroid diversity greater than initially believed – Knovel
Asteroid diversity greater than initially believedKnovelUnderstanding asteroids, in particular how they end up in the various places they travel, could play an integral role in successfully predicting when different celestial bodies could come close to or impact with Earth. Recent…
Getting Ready for Asteroids – eNews Park Forest
CNET Getting Ready for AsteroidseNews Park ForestEU–(ENEWSPF)–31 January 2014. With a mandate from the UN, ESA and other space agencies from around the world are about to establish a high-level group to help coordinate global response should a threatening asteroid…
Asteroid diversity points to a "snow globe" solar system – TG Daily
Asteroid diversity points to a “snow globe” solar systemTG Daily“We found that the giant planets shook up the asteroids like flakes in a snow globe,” says lead author Francesca DeMeo, a Hubble postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.…
Study: Solar system full of 'rogue' asteroids – CNN
CNN Study: Solar system full of ‘rogue’ asteroidsCNN(CNN) — If you want to find an asteroid, the region between Mars and Jupiter is a great place to look. That area where asteroids hang out is called the main asteroid belt.…
The solar system was once like a giant chaotic SNOW GLOBE – Daily Mail
Daily Mail The solar system was once like a giant chaotic SNOW GLOBEDaily MailAstronomers have theorised that long-ago asteroid impacts delivered much of the water now filling Earth’s oceans, as shown in this artist’s conception. If true, the stirring provided…