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Mountain-Sized Asteroid to Fly By Earth Monday

January 24, 2015 Posted by Staff

NASA announced that a 1,800-feet/ 550-meter wide asteroid would fly past Earth at a safe distance January 26. The flyby does not endanger Earth since the space rock would come within nearly 75,000 miles/ 1.2 million km of Earth, which is three times the Moon-Earth distance, NASA experts said. However, space scientists can hardly wait for the event and have already prepared two huge radio … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: 2004 BL86, Arecibo telescope, Asteroid, close asteroid flyby, Goldstone dish, Lance Benner, mountain-sized asteroid, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), near-Earth asteroid

Japanese Space Probe Launched After Being Delayed Twice

December 4, 2014 Posted by Contributor

The Japanese Space Probe Hayabusa 2 has finally parted from the Tanegashima Space Center on the 2nd of December, after two attempts got postponed due to poor weather conditions. As we speak, it is on course towards the asteroid known as 1999 JU3 with the mission to collect as much information as it can about potential organic material present on it. When it comes to unraveling the universe’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: 1999 JU3, Asteroid, asteroid 1999 JU3, asteroid study, hayabusa 2, japanese space probe, space exploration

Asteroid Mining Closer to Reality

November 22, 2014 Posted by Staff

Two private companies announced they will pursue their plans of asteroid mining. Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources received contracts from NASA to study asteroid redirection. The U.S. company in Washington State, Planetary Resources will launch two satellites to analyze the design and systems of their telescopes based in outer space. The satellites are called Arkyd 6 and Arkyd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: arkyd, Asteroid, asteroid mining, asteroid mining possible, bennu, bennu asteroid, deep space industries, dragonfly, fireflies, harvesters, mine asteroids, NASA, osiris-rex, planetary resources

Asteroid with Comet-like Tail from Hygiea Family Discovered

November 12, 2014 Posted by Editor

Astronomers made a unique discovery in the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter, finding what they call an active asteroid with a comet-like tail. Researchers were not expecting such a discovery as the recently observed asteroid would represent the first comet-like body in the Hygiea family. Dubbed 62412, the asteroid is no novelty to astronomers. However, until now, scientists had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: 62412, active asteroid, active asteroid discovered, Asteroid, asteroid tail, carnegie, chadwick trujillo, comet, comet asteroid, comet like asteroid, comet-like asteroid discovered, comet-like tail, Gemini Observatory, hygiea, scott sheppard

On Earth Day, videos showing powerful asteroids striking Earth released

April 23, 2014 Posted by Contributor

On the occasion of 44th Earth Day, an asteroid hunting organization has released some terrific visuals of asteroids slamming our planet. The B612 Foundation, an asteroid-hunting non-profit organization founded by former NASA astronauts, has posted some of the eye catching footages of dozens of incoming asteroids attacking the Earth with some of them having the power of city-destroying atomic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: Asteroid, B612 Foundation, Earth, Earth day, NASA

Asteroid 2014 DX110 to have close encounter with Earth

March 5, 2014 Posted by Contributor

Giving a rare treat to the space gazers, US space agency NASA has announced that an asteroid will fly past Earth closer than the moon today. NASA says, with the help of its current detection capabilities the space agency is able to make such last minute asteroid announcements, which happen around 20 times a year According to the space agency, the asteroid is 30 meters across and traveling at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: 2014 DX110, Asteroid, Earth, NASA

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