Watch the NASA TV coverage of the asteroid redirection systems session of the NASA-hosted public workshop at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston to examine 96 of the ideas submitted to the recent Request For Information on ways to accomplish the agency’s asteroid initiative.… Read the rest of this article
NASA has completed the first step toward a mission to find and capture a near-Earth asteroid, redirect it to a stable lunar orbit and send humans to study it.
In preparation for fiscal year 2014, a mission formulation review on Tuesday brought together NASA leaders from across the country to examine internal studies proposing multiple concepts and alternatives for each … Read the rest of this article
Planetary Defense
Planetary Resources just announced a collaboration with Zooniverse that will empower citizen scientists to aid in the search for potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and support planetary defense. If the ARKYD Kickstarter reaches US$1.7 million by Sunday, they will partner with Zooniverse to create Asteroid Zoo, a program to allow students, citizen scientists and space enthusiasts to find … Read the rest of this article
Scientists working with NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a new and improved movie clip of near-Earth asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon. The 55 individual images used in the movie were generated from data collected at Goldstone on June 1, 2013.
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In this movie, each of the individual images required about five minutes …
This artist’s conception shows how families of asteroids are created. Over the history of our solar system, catastrophic collisions between asteroids located in the belt between Mars and Jupiter have formed families of objects on similar orbits around the sun. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree … Read the rest of this article
The first radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 were obtained when the asteroid was about 3.75 million miles (6 million kilometers) from Earth. The radar collage covers a little bit more than two hours. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR
Approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. Researchers found it in a sequence of radar images obtained by the 70-meter Deep Space Network … Read the rest of this article
NASA is tracking a large near-Earth asteroid as it passes by the Earth-Moon system on May 31st. Amateur astronomers in the northern hemisphere may be able to see the space rock for themselves during the 1st week of June.
Here we go again. Another asteroid is paying a visit to the Earth-Moon system.
Asteroids have been a hot topic since … Read the rest of this article
Planetary Resource’s dedication to prospecting asteroids with space telescopes is an interesting opportunity. Today (May 29th, 2013) they’ll be announcing something big that anyone can be a part of.
Planetary Resources has a team of engineers who have designed, built and operated spacecraft throughout the Solar System, including all of the recent U.S. Mars landers and rovers, are now developing … Read the rest of this article
ESA today inaugurated a new hub that will strengthen Europe’s contribution to the global hunt for asteroids and other hazardous natural objects that may strike Earth.
Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs, are asteroids or comets with sizes ranging from metres to tens of kilometres that orbit the Sun and whose orbits come close to that of Earth. There are over 600 … Read the rest of this article
On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. And while QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who … Read the rest of this article
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