22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
...pass close to our planet, they were chosen as targets to test whether a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a chosen asteroid, bump into it – in Dimorphos’ case, DART will hit the moonlet at speeds of approximately 6.6 kilometres per second – and...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
...,” stated co-founders Dr. Brian May, Danica Remy, Grig Richters and Rusty Schweickart in an interview earlier this year. “Asteroid impacts are the only natural disaster we know how to prevent if we, as the crew of Spaceship Earth work together...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
... Hygiea and thousands upon thousands of smaller close companions. “Such a collision between two large bodies in the asteroid belt is unique in the last 3–4 billion years,” says Pavel Ševeček, a PhD student at the Astronomical Institute of Charles...
12 November 2021
Near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the Moon
... light, called a spectrum. Their results indicate that the asteroid’s spectra matches those from lunar rocks collected during NASA's ...tilt. Its orbit is also not typical of near-Earth asteroids, according to study co-author Renu Malhotra, a Univerity ...
09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
...quality,” comments Olivier Hainaut, an ESO astronomer who was not part of the team. “The discovery of a carbonaceous asteroid in the Kuiper Belt is a key verification of one of the fundamental predictions of dynamical models of the early Solar System...
21 November 2017
First interstellar asteroid looks nothing like expected
... to be a typical home-grown fast-moving small asteroid, but further observations over the next few days revealed...to detect objects like `Oumuamua and with estimates that interstellar asteroids pass our borders approximately once a year, it is likely ...
