asteroids

Gold, water and platinum: Australians lead the way towards asteroid mining boom 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 7, 2017
Australia will have asteroid mining before we have people living on Mars, according to leading Australian scientists.

By David Aragorn
Stake Your Claim on Asteroids in Their ICO 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 7, 2017
Hong-Kong-based Asteroid Ltd. (Asteroid) has launched one of the most-anticipated ICOs this year in their mission to establish a blockchain-based mechanism to oversee claiming rights to more than half a million asteroids already identified within Earth’s celestial orbit.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon: Geminid Parent at Its Closest and Brightest!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 6, 2017
The parent asteroid of December’s Geminid meteor shower, 3200 Phaethon, is about to make a historically close flyby. Get ready to watch it race across the sky.

By David Aragorn
Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 5, 2017
Three times further away from the sun than the Earth lies an enormous lump of metal. Around 252km in diameter, the metallic “M-class” asteroid 16 Psyche is the target of NASA’s next mission to the belt of giant rocks that encircles the inner solar system. And the space agency now plans to visit it much sooner than originally planned.

By David Aragorn
A solar-powered asteroid nursery at the orbit of Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2017
The planet Mars shares its orbit with a handful of small asteroids, the so-called Trojans. Among them, one finds a unique group, all moving in very similar orbits, suggesting that they originated from the same object.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s asteroid chaser zips by Earth for gravity boost 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2017
An unmanned NASA spacecraft traveling to a distant asteroid veered toward Earth on Friday for a gravitational slingshot maneuver that will better aim it toward the Sun-orbiting space rock, Bennu, the US space agency said.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious comet spotted a decade ago revealed to be two ‘dancing asteroids’ circling each other 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2017
New Hubble images have now revealed the object is actually two asteroids.

By David Aragorn
Europe withdraws from anti-asteroid mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 22, 2017
An upcoming mission designed to test out the deflection of a large asteroid has hit a bit of a snag.

By David Aragorn
Nanosat fleet proposed for voyage to 300 asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2017
A fleet of tiny spacecraft could visit over 300 asteroids in just over three years, according to a mission study led by the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Florence Has Two Small Moons, NASA Radar Reveals 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 6, 2017
Astronomers working with NASA’s 230-foot (70-m) Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, CA, have released the first radar images of the near-Earth asteroid (3122) Florence. The images show the asteroid has two small moons.

By David Aragorn