Asteroids
Two Asteroids Passed Close to Earth Wednesday
[/caption] Earth got a double dose of close asteroid flybys on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Two newly discovered small asteroids…
Earth Has A Companion Asteroid With a Weird Orbit
[/caption] There are plenty of near-Earth asteroids out there, but this latest one studied by two researchers at Armagh Observatory…
Revolutionary Dawn Closing in on Asteroid Vesta with Opened Eyes
[/caption] The excitement is building as NASA’s innovative Dawn spacecraft closes in on its first protoplanetary target, the giant asteroid…
Equipment to Study Hayabusa’s Asteroid Samples Damaged in Japan Earthquake
[/caption] The large particle accelerator being used in to analyze the asteroid samples returned by the Hayabusa spacecraft was damaged…
Astronomers Continue to Monitor Asteroid Apophis
[/caption] Asteroid Apophis continues to be an object of interest for astronomers. Even though the possibility of an Earth impact…
New Record: Telescope Finds 19 Near-Earth Asteroids in One Night
[/caption] From a University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy press release: The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, discovered 19…
Small Asteroid Just Buzzed Earth
If you felt a sudden breeze at about 19:40 GMT (2:40 pm EST), it was probably from a small asteroid…
Mission Complete: NEOWISE Concludes Hunt for Near-Earth Objects
[/caption] The WISE spacecraft has completed a special mission called NEOWISE, looking for small bodies in the solar system, and…
Asteroid Apophis in the News Again
It must have been a slow news day in Russia yesterday (actually – and unfortunately -- it wasn’t)… as headlines…
More Asteroids Could Have Made Life’s Ingredients
[/caption] From a NASA press release: A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids…