30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
... Earth and burned up in the atmosphere, news sources report. Scientists in Hawaii initially spotted the asteroid, named 2019 MO on Saturday (June 22). Soon after, the rogue space rock broke apart creating a large fireball as it hit the...
18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
...launched in July of 2018 to rendezvous with the object in October 2019. For later launch dates, say the authors, the DeltaV (..., but it relies on SLS being ready on time. If C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) had been spotted earlier, something that new facilities ...
13 September 2019
Long-term sustainability of outer space
...to take place from 21 - 25 October in Washington D.C., United States will feature on Tuesday 22 October 2019, from 08:30 – 09:30, a Plenary on the topic of “The Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space: Advancing the Space Economy and ...
29 April 2019
Preparing for an asteroid impact - test underway now!
... that the chance of impact is rapidly increasing. By 29 April 2019 the probability of impact has risen to 1 in 100. Although ... (29 April) coincides with the first day of the 2019 Planetary Defence Conference, Washington DC, which is where experts from...
13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
... 3.2, the newly found comet’s orbit can be described as hyperbolic. This highly eccentric/hyperbolic orbit is what gives C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) away as being a would-be interstellar visitor rather than a local inhabitant of the Solar System knocked off...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... were dashed last month, when reports that Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) had started fading in brightness and was...closest to the Sun) on 31 May, 2020. Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on April 20, 2020. Image via NASA/ ESA/ STScI/ D. ...
