YORP Effect, Peanuts And Itokawa: The Anatomy Of An AsteroidScience 2.0In 2005,the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa revealed that the near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa has a strange peanut shape, leading to questions about why. Now, using ground-based observations, a group has measured…
Astronomers Look “Inside” an Asteroid for the First Time – Universe Today
Astronomers Look “Inside” an Asteroid for the First TimeUniverse TodayThe observations of Itokawa — which you may remember from the Japanese Hayabusa mission that landed on the asteroid in 2005 — not only teach us more about how asteroids came…
New asteroid research offers different view of solar system – Boston Globe
Ars Technica New asteroid research offers different view of solar systemBoston GlobeIn the 1980s, the solar system seemed to follow a simple organizational pattern. It was static; the planets formed pretty much where they are today. The asteroid belt seemed…
ICANN's Sweetheart Of A Contract To PowerAuctions Covers All Costs & Gives … – TheDomains.com
ICANN’s Sweetheart Of A Contract To PowerAuctions Covers All Costs & Gives …TheDomains.comOn 13 September 2013, ICANN entered into what may well be the most lucrative contract ever granted in ICANN’s history with Power Auctions LLC to conduct its Last…
Planets' chaotic orbits shook up asteroids like a snow globe – Ars Technica
Ars Technica Planets’ chaotic orbits shook up asteroids like a snow globeArs TechnicaThe result, published in Nature last Thursday, reveals a trend: rogue asteroids—those appearing at a spot different from where they formed—are quite common. Something must have displaced them,…
Naming asteroids in honor of Nelson Mandela – The Planetary Society (blog)
Naming asteroids in honor of Nelson MandelaThe Planetary Society (blog)When Nelson Mandela died on December 5 it occurred to me to check whether there was an asteroid named for him. When I found out there wasn’t, I tweeted that someone…