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NASA's volunteer-driven project reveals 'ghostly' asteroid activity Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2024 In an astonishing feat, over 8,000 citizen scientists have identified 15 unique "active asteroids," showcasing comet-like characteristics, through NASA's Active Asteroids project. This revelation, derived from analyzing 430,000 images captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Victor M. Blanco Telescope in Chile, not only expands our understanding of these cosmic bodies but also defies previous solar system beliefs. The discovery, now documented in the Astronomical Journal, notably includes ... read more |
Shoebox-sized Milani CubeSat joining Hera asteroid mission Paris (ESA) Mar 15, 2024 The shoebox-sized Milani CubeSat, which will perform close-up mineral prospecting of the Dimorphos asteroid, is ready for delivery to ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence. The spacecraf ... more Paris (ESA) Feb 27, 2024 ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defence is being prepared for a journey to the distant asteroid moon Dimorphos orbiting around its parent body Didymos. One of the first features Hera will look f ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2024 On Feb. 2, a large asteroid safely drifted past Earth at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7 0.5 times the distance between Earth and the Moon). There was no risk of ... more Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Feb 26, 2024 The United Arab Emirates Space Agency has successfully completed the critical preliminary design review (CDR) for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA). This important milestone, achieved ... more |
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Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact Paris (ESA) Jan 26, 2024 It was at 22:48 CET on Saturday 20 January when veteran asteroid hunter Sarneczky discovered a new asteroid using the 60 cm Schmidt Telescope at Piszkesteto Mountain Station, part of Konkoly Observa ... more Sendai, Japan (SPX) Jan 25, 2024 In a recent development that adds another layer to our understanding of the solar system's complexity, researchers have uncovered intriguing evidence from the asteroid Ryugu. This near-Earth asteroi ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2024 NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has successfully navigated its closest approach to the Sun. This maneuver, known as perihelion, brought the spacecraft 25 million miles closer to the Sun than its initi ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2024 In a groundbreaking study that leverages the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) data, scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have made a seminal discover ... more Mountain View CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2024 The official classification now aligns with what many suspected from merely looking at the images of the strange meteorites that fell near Berlin on January 21, 2024. They belong to a rare group cal ... more |
Small Satellite May Shape Centaur Rings Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 12, 2024 The unique two thin rings around the Centaur Chariklo could be shaped by an even smaller satellite. Chariklo is a Centaur, which are small bodies similar to asteroids in size but to comets in composition, that revolve around the Sun in the outer Solar System, mainly between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune. "Rings around minor planets have only been recently discovered, and only a small number of such systems are currently known. There has been significant research into the dazzling rings around ... read more Paris (ESA) Feb 12, 2024 It's a scenario made famous by the 1998 film 'Armageddon': an asteroid is spotted on a collision course with Earth, and experts scramble to plan a space mission to rendezvous with the asteroid and m ... more |
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid makes closest pass to Earth in more than century Washington DC (UPI) Feb 2, 2024 A football field-sized asteroid whizzed by the Earth Friday, making its closest pass in more than a century. ... more Washington DC (UPI) Feb 02, 2024 A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a football field will make its closest pass to Earth in more than a century this week, and it won't be this close again for another 200 years, official ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2024 In a recent demonstration of NASA's advancing planetary defense capabilities, a small asteroid, approximately 3 feet (1 meter) in size, disintegrated harmlessly over Germany. This event occurred on ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2024 The astromaterials curation team at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has at last completed the intricate process of disassembling the OSIRIS-REx sampler head, revealing the remaining sample of ... more St. Louis, MO (SPX) Jan 18, 2024 Eighteen years after NASA's Stardust mission returned to Earth with the first samples from a known comet, the true nature of that icy object is coming into focus. Stardust collected material from Wi ... more |
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