09 April 2021
Around 5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust falls to Earth each year
... have found their way to Earth’s surface from a passing comet or asteroid. Particles such as these have been found on Earth...the incoming extraterrestrial flux originates from Jupiter family comets and the rest from asteroids. Understanding the role...
15 June 2020
Cosmos The Art and Science of the Universe
... object in the sky of Bondone’s ‘Adoration of the Magi’ was not the star of Bethlehem but “a portrait of Halley’s Comet during its 1301 apparition”. Indeed, the focus is on Western art, “where the tradition of representing astronomical phenomena...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...- the Moon, the planets, the asteroids and comets? Would these new lands be subject to appropriation and...Servadac, Voyages et Adventures a traverse le Monde Solaire (“Off on a Comet”), 1877. 2 See, e.g., Tsiolkovsky, K.E.: The Exploration of Cosmic ...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...in which DLR participated is the European Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in which development and operation of the.... Together with ESA, the first ever landing on a comet was performed on 12 November 2014. ESA’s unmanned Automated ...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... Kepler Space Telescope, the Rosetta mission to land on a comet, Japanese missions to the Moon, Indian mission to Mars, ..., are more and more at risk. Solar storms, asteroid and comet strikes, and orbital debris problems are all real threats we need ...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets that pose a credible risk of Earth impact. The... Engineering, 78, 93-113. 16 Davis, A. M. (Ed.). (2005). Meteorites, Comets, and Planets: Treatise on Geochemistry (Vol. 1). Elsevier. 17 Shen, J....
