Asteroids
Asteroid 2009 DD45 Just Buzzed by Earth
[/caption] As I'm writing this (13:40 UT) a newly-discovered asteroid, 2009 DD45, is flying past Earth at only 74,800 km…
Jupiter, Saturn Plowed Through Asteroids, Study Says
[/caption] When Mars and Jupiter migrated to their present orbits around 4 billion years ago, they left scars in…
Sounds Painful: Are Deadly Asteroids Stuck in Earth’s Lagrangian Points?
[/caption] Two solar telescopes launched to study coronal mass ejections and the solar wind have been sent to do an…
Weekend Fireballs Not Satellite Debris
A fireball seen over Texas during the daytime on Sunday, Feb. 15th, triggered widespread reports that debris from the recent…
New Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered
[/caption] While observing a known asteroid on January 31, 2009, astronomer Robert Holmes from the Astronomical Research Institute near Charleston,…
New Technique to Accurately Measure Asteroids
[/caption] It's one thing to know the position of an asteroid out in space. It's quite another to know the…
Strange Asteroid 2009 BD Stalks the Earth
[/caption]A 10 meter-wide asteroid named 2009 BD discovered earlier this month is making a slow pass of the Earth, coming…
New Telescope on the Lookout for Near Earth Asteroids, Comets
[/caption] A prototype telescope with an enhanced ability to find moving objects will soon be operational, and its mission will…
Impressive Craters on Earth
[/caption] Ever since our recent encounter with asteroid 2008 TC3 -- the first asteroid that was correctly predicted to hit…
First Images of Asteroid 2008 TC3 Impact Aftermath
[/caption] A month after asteroid 2008 TC3 hit the Earth's atmosphere, the first ground-based image of the event has surfaced…