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January 28, 2012 |
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Using radar data, scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory created this six-frame movie of asteroid 2005 YU55. The data was obtained Nov. 7, 2011 using NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar (located at the Deep Space Network facility in Goldstone, Ca.) At the time, the space rock was approximately 860,000 miles (1.38 million kilometers) away from Earth. At its closest approach on Nov. 8, 2011, YU55 will be about 200,000 miles from Earth. It poses no threat. Resolution is 4 meters per...Read Full Story
April 14, 2011 Video imaging of newly discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 shows the object appearing to blink on and off about once every four minutes. Amateur astronomers, including Nick James of Chelmsford, Essex, England, have captured video of the interesting object. James generated this video of GP59 on the night of Monday, April 11. The video, captured with an 11-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, is a compilation of 137 individual frames, each requiring 30 seconds of exposure. At the time...Read Full Story
China Daily Every way devised to deflect an asteroid PhysOrg.com With asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close by Earth yesterday, this rather unsettlingly near flyby has many people wondering if we would be able to divert an asteroid that was heading for an intersection with Earth in its orbit. ... Asteroid Flyby: How Students Helped World See Giant Space Rock 2005 YU55 Space.com Recommended: Parting shots from the asteroid msnbc.com Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get...Read Full Story
The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth By Adam Mann Wired Science Article PASADENA, Calif. — Send a robot into space. Grab an asteroid. Bring it back to Earth orbit. This may sound like a crazy plan, but it was discussed quite seriously last week by a group of scientists and engineers at the California Institute of Technology. The four-day workshop was dedicated to investigating the feasibility and requirements of capturing a near-Earth asteroid, bringing it closer to our planet and using it...Read Full Story
Houston, TX – Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) are preparing to curate and analyze samples from the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security ...
GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- NASA says data from its Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta suggests the rocky body is cold and dark enough to have retained ice for billions of years.
Modeling of Vesta's average global temperatures and illumination...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Thursday, January 26, 2012 that an asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, January 27. According to NASA Asteroid Watch program that day, Asteroid 2012 BX34 will pass by Earth on Friday, January 27 at around 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 GMT) but will not pose any [...]
I see that there is a symposium on the MarcoPolo-R mission coming up in late March, which reminds me that at a time when asteroid missions are increasingly in the news, I have yet to cover this one. It was about a year ago that the European Space Agency selected MarcoPolo-R as one of four [...]
HOUSTON, Jan.17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- An astronaut and geologist will camp out in a prototype Space Exploration Vehicle this week to simulate an asteroid mission at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronaut Al Drew and geologist Jose M.
An asteroid about the size of a school bus will pass close to Earth today, but it poses no danger to the planet, NASA astronomers say.
The huge rock, called Asteroid 2012 BX34, will close to within about 36,750 miles of Earth, or about .17 times the distance between the Earth and the moon, according to a Twitter post from Asteroid Watch, which is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Near Earth Object Office.
"It wouldn't get...
Written by Jia-Rui C. Cook NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA - Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of years, according to the first published models [...]
Proposals are being considered at NASA for a mission to an asteroid to study asteroid composition and movements. A NASA feasibility study showed that such an asteroid mission is possible with the new vehicles NASA is developing for a trip to the moon.
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A mission in development for exploration of main belt asteroids Vesta and Ceres". Acta Astronautica 58 (11): 605-616. DOI : 10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.01.014 . ^ Chang, Alicia (2006). NASA Aster