asteroids

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2022
NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit

By David Aragorn
Asteroid spotted just before hitting Earth’s atmosphere wows astronomers0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 25, 2022
It was “probably a once-in-a-lifetime” moment for the asteroid hunter.

By David Aragorn
Nasa alert as THREE asteroids to ‘skim’ past Earth tomorrow at up to 9000 mph 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2022
A WHOPPING three asteroids will zip past Earth tomorrow ahead of the nerve-shredding pass of an Empire State Building-sized rock next week.

By David Aragorn
Lucy in the sky: Spacecraft will visit record 8 asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2021
Advances in tech and design are behind this flurry of asteroid missions, as well as the growing interest in asteroids and the danger they pose to Earth.

By David Aragorn
NASA is ramming a spacecraft into an asteroid as part of a planetary defense test mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 3, 2021
The historic DART mission is set to launch late Tuesday.

By David Aragorn
Apophis: The asteroid we thought might hit us 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2021
Even though the asteroid Apophis won’t hit Earth for at least another century, its scientific impact will be tremendous.

By David Aragorn
Amateur Astronomer Films the Moment Jupiter Is Hit by a Space Rock 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2021
An amateur astronomer has captured the moment a space rock collided with Jupiter. The debris struck the gas giant, which is the solar system’s largest planet, at 6:39 pm EDT on Monday, creating a flash of light at its surface.

By David Aragorn
Modern snakes evolved from a few survivors of dino-killing asteroid 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- September 15, 2021
A new study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and most other living things at the end of the Cretaceous. The authors say that this devastating extinction event was a form of ‘creative destruction’ that allowed snakes to diversify into new niches, previously filled by their competitors.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Planetary Radar Spots Its 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 9, 2021
2021 PJ1, a near-Earth asteroid between 20 and 30 m (66-98 feet) across, safely flew past Earth on August 14, 2021 at a distance of over 1.7 million km (1 million miles). The approach was historic, marking the 1,000th near-Earth asteroid to be observed by NASA’s planetary radar in just over 50 years.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Fastest-Orbiting Asteroid Ever Seen 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 26, 2021
The newly-discovered asteroid 2021 PH27 has a diameter of about 1 km (3,280 feet) and orbits the Sun in just 113 days — the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any object in our Solar System after Mercury.

By David Aragorn