Asteroids
Wanted: Asteroid Mappers to Help Scientists Delve Through Data from Dawn
Many types of craters are captured in this panorama of recent Dawn images. Credit: NASA There’s a new citizen science…
Students: Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Needs a New Name!
NASA and the Planetary Society are giving students worldwide the opportunity to name an asteroid. And it’s not just any…
Desert RATS Begin Simulated Asteroid Mission Today
Caption: Artist's Concept, Space Exploration Vehicle Use Comparison. Credit: NASA Conspiracy theories abound that the Apollo landings all took place…
Watch A Near Earth Asteroid Zoom By
Caption: A view of asteroid 2002 AM31 on Friday, July 20 2012, at 08:34 UT by the Faulkes Telescope North.…
Oldest Impact Crater on Earth Discovered in Greenland
With shifting continents, rain, and wind, finding traces of ancient impact craters on Earth has been, literally, astronomically low. Now,…
Weekly Space Hangout – June 21, 2012
In this edition of the Weekly Space Hangout, we welcome a new participant: Mike Wall, senior writer at Space.com. We…
Recent Earth-Passing Asteroid is Much Bigger Than Originally Estimated
An asteroid that recently passed by Earth is about twice as large as originally estimated, and it would have had…
Astronomers View Asteroid 2012 LZ1’s Bright Flyby
As reported, asteroid 2012 LZ1 came about 5.3 million km (3.3 million miles) from planet Earth on its closest approach…
Big and Bright Asteroid to Pass by Earth June 14
An unusually large and bright near-Earth asteroid was recently discovered and it will make its closest approach to Earth on…
Earth Threatened By Glowing Green Asteroid?
[/caption] The Daily Mail is reporting that a youtube user has found a strange object while poking around in Google…