News About Asteroids And Comets 16-MAY-08 en-us Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 30, 2008 - Dawn continues its powered flight, having accumulated more than 100 days of ion thrusting since its launch nearly 7 months ago. All systems are healthy as the probe patiently and persistently propels itself through the solar system. In addition to its weekly hiatus in thrusting to point its main antenna to Earth for about 6 hours, Dawn's flight plan includes occasional longer intervals to conduct special activities.]]> ]]> Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 16, 2008 - A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.]]> Washington (AFP) April 16, 2008 - It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed.]]> Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 08, 2008 - The Indiana Asteroid Program began with a borrowed lens and a bet over a chocolate ice cream cone. Almost 60 years later, its final chapter was written with the naming of a heavenly body after one of the most dedicated staff members Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Astronomy has ever seen.]]> ]]> College Park MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2008 - Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our Solar System's oldest objects.]]> Fort Worth, Texas (UPI) Mar 17, 2008 - Two Texas college students discovered an asteroid while examining images of space on a computer, a report said.]]> Poway CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2008 - SpaceDev has announced that along with teammate SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. (SEI), it has won first place in The Planetary Society's Apophis Mission Design Competition. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) were co-sponsors of this innovative competition. The sponsors received 37 mission proposals from 20 countries on 6 continents.]]> ]]> Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 15, 2008 - Once considered just your average single asteroid, 2001 SN263 has now been revealed as the first near-Earth triple asteroid ever found. The asteroid -- with three bodies orbiting each other -- was discovered this week by astronomers at the radar telescope at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.]]> Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2008 - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien (exosolar) planets as it enters its extended mission, called Epoxi.]]> Manchester, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2008 - Scientists in Manchester have received small fragments of material from the Wild 2 comet (pronounced 'Vilt 2' after the Swiss astronomer who discovered it), which was brought back to earth by NASA's Stardust space mission. The Cosmochemistry research group, within the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (SEAES), is now analysing the material using two state of the art mass spectrometers.]]> ]]> ]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008 - Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have obtained the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24 using high-resolution radar data. The data indicate the asteroid is somewhat asymmetrical in shape, with a diameter roughly 250 meters (800 feet) in size. Asteroid 2007 TU24 will pass within 1.4 lunar distances, or 538,000 kilometers (334,000 miles), of Earth on Jan. 29 at 12:33 a.m. Pacific time (3:33 a.m. Eastern time).]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2008 - Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have obtained the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24 using high-resolution radar data. The data indicate the asteroid is somewhat asymmetrical in shape, with a diameter roughly 250 meters (800 feet) in size. Asteroid 2007 TU24 will pass within 1.4 lunar distances, or 538,000 kilometers (334,000 miles), of Earth on Jan. 29 at 12:33 a.m. Pacific time (3:33 a.m. Eastern time).]]> Livermore CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2008 - Contrary to expectations for a small icy body, much of the comet dust returned by the Stardust mission formed very close to the young sun and was altered from the solar system's early materials. When the Stardust mission returned to Earth with samples from the comet Wild 2 in 2006, scientists knew the material would provide new clues about the formation of our solar system, but they didn't know exactly how.]]> Advertise in this newsletter or website click for advertising kit - PDF File

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