asteroids

From discovery to data: How astronomers track near-Earth asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 31, 2018
Once an asteroid has been identified, how do we know if it’s a threat?

By David Aragorn
China’s Plan to Seize a Near-Earth Asteroid Sounds Surprisingly Feasible 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 30, 2018
For centuries, humans have extracted minerals from the Earth with reckless abandon, but it’s only a matter of time before our desire for gold, platinum, iron, tungsten, and other useful ores will exceed our planet’s ability to provide them.

By David Aragorn
Rare Double Asteroid Spotted by Three of the World’s Largest Radio Telescopes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 17, 2018
An asteroid first discovered last year has now been confirmed to be one of only four equal mass binary systems ever detected near Earth.

By David Aragorn
Fragment of impacting asteroid recovered in Botswana 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 10, 2018
On Saturday, June 23, 2018, a team of experts from Botswana, South Africa, Finland and the United States of America recovered a fresh meteorite in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).

By David Aragorn
Many asteroids might be remnants of five destroyed worlds, scientists say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2018
Asteroids could have more materials on them then we thought.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Ryugu, an asteroid under close inspection 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2018
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft plans to strike the asteroid creating a crater and dislodging rocks for analysis

By David Aragorn
Comet or asteroid? Mysterious ‘Oumuamua shows why we may need a new classification system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2018
Ever since space scientists first spotted the odd, cigar-shaped object known as 1I/‘Oumuamua in the sky, they have been debating what it is exactly. Suggestions have included an asteroid, a comet and even alien spaceship. Now a study, published in Nature, suggests it may actually be a comet – but an unusual one.

By David Aragorn
First Human Mission To Binary Asteroid Will Help NASA Defend Earth From Possible Collisions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 4, 2018
The Hera spacecraft mission, proposed by the European Space Agency, is heading to a binary asteroid to support NASA’s planetary defense plan against potential asteroid collision.

By David Aragorn
Daring Japanese mission reaches unexplored asteroid Ryugu 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 28, 2018
Hayabusa-2 will hover above its target and release four landing probes before touching down to collect samples to return to Earth.

By David Aragorn
An asteroid exploded over Russia this week 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 26, 2018
Images and video of the daylight meteor seen over Russia on June 21. The small asteroid exploded in the air; fragments may have reached Earth. Plus … why are so many large meteors seen over Russia?

By David Aragorn