10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
...trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). TNOs are classed as minor or dwarf planets and indeed Pluto is now considered a TNO, as is...the Solar System. Last year the team found 300 minor planets including 139 new objects that were not previously published....
04 July 2018
Majority of asteroids come from a handful of ancient planets
... asteroid belt originate from just five or six ancient infantile planets that never made it to adulthood. Asteroids, it turns out...scientists to understand the materials that shaped our own rocky planet, but it could be hugely beneficial in helping to ...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
...the first to review the data, followed by the Minor Planet Center of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory who will then send... Earth and families and all that we value on this planet. More than 100 scientists, physicists, and business leaders have...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
..., have told us over the past 10 years. An inventory of potentially hazardous asteroids has been created by the US Minor Planet Center and the UN-sanctioned International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), but it is inadequate, as is the so-called NEO...
01 July 2016
Asteroid Day was celebrated on June 30 – but what was it all about?
... an asteroid, anyways? The classification of celestial bodies is largely size and orbit-dependent. Asteroids, sometimes referred to as minor planets or planetoids, are large rocky bodies that do not have an atmosphere and are in orbit around the Sun...
29 April 2019
Preparing for an asteroid impact - test underway now!
... 2019 and has been given its name by the IAU’s Minor Planet Center. Those in the test have been given the following ... many eventualities as possible. “The first step in protecting our planet is knowing what’s out there,” says Rüdiger Jehn, ESA’s...
