NASA will likely get $100 million next year to jump-start an audacious program to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon for research and exploration purposes, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson says. Original post on space.com Comments on reddit.com
NASA proposes capturing asteroids. Original post on sciencerecorder.com Comments on reddit.com
NASA is taking a plan to send an unmanned spacecraft to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit around the Moon seriously. Aviation Week reports that NASA’s budget request for fiscal 2014 will… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
The space rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago, widely implicated in killing off the dinosaurs, was probably a fast-moving comet, researchers say. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Spanish researchers have observed a rare asteroids from the Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spain) and have discovered that something happened around the 1st July 2011 causing a comet-like trail to appear: maybe internal rupture or collision with another asteroid. To date,… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on reddit.com
Astronomers are developing a new system to identify dangerous asteroids before their final plunge to Earth. The asteroid detection system that will patrol the visible sky twice a night looking for faint objects moving through space. Original post on astrobio.net Comments on reddit.com
Asteroid 2012 DA14 makes its closest approach to Earth at 2:25 p.m. ET Friday, and the world’s astronomers have been on the lookout for it. Take a look at this sequence of images, sent by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory from the Faulkes Telescope South, in Siding Springs, Australia: Image credit: LCOGT/Faulkes via NASA/JPL. These pictures were taken when the asteroid was still about 465,000 miles away from us. Most of the dots in these very enlarged images are stars in the distant background; the asteroid stands out because it is moving in front of them. NASA says the animation was… Original post on abcnews.go.com Comments on reddit.com
Asteroid set for close call TASMANIAN space buffs can catch sight of a newly discovered asteroid that will pass Original post on news.com.au Comments on reddit.com
Dec. 21, 2012, wasn’t the end of the world, and here’s why. Original post on nasa.gov Comments on reddit.com
Those supportive of the theory of global warming warn that this phenomenon represents a major threat to life on earth, but is global warming also a threat beyond our planet? On the face of it, the “global” aspect of global warming would lead one to believe that the threat of climate change is somewhat localized. For one CNN anchor, however, the challenges posed by global warming extend out into the solar system where they somehow created the circumstances that led to a near-earth asteroid just missing the planet. Original post on mediaite.com Comments on reddit.com
A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction — the event that wiped out roughly… Original post on extremetech.com Comments on reddit.com
The infamous space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs may have been a binary – two asteroids revolving around each other Original post on newscientist.com Comments on reddit.com
A newly unveiled asteroid-mining company aims to spur the spread of humanity throughout the solar system by tapping the vast riches of space rocks. Original post on space.com Comments on reddit.com
The cold, dead asteroid Vesta might have had a very active inner life early in the solar system’s history, according to an unusual analysis of a Saharan meteorite. Original post on phys.org Comments on reddit.com
The early results are in from a giant radar dish tracking asteroid 99942 Apophis, and it’s good news for planet Earth: there’s essentially no chance that this threatening object will hit us in 2036. Original post on skyandtelescope.com Comments on reddit.com
LONDON: NASA scientists are planning to capture a 500 ton asteroid, relocate it and turn it into a space station for astronauts to refuel at on their way to Mars. The 1.6bn-pound plan will be Original post on indiatimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Nasa scientists are presenting the White House with a plan to capture an asteroid and steer it to a new position where it will act as a stepping stone to Mars. Original post on dailymail.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
‘Trillions of carats’ lie below a 35-million-year-old, 62-mile-diameter asteroid crater in eastern Siberia known as Popigai Astroblem. The Russians have known about the site since the 1970s. Original post on csmonitor.com Comments on reddit.com
A tiny space rock that’s partially tethered to Earth by a gravitational leash is our planet’s first known Trojan asteroid, astronomers say. Original post on nationalgeographic.com Comments on reddit.com
How did the Earth get its oceans? The primordial Earth was a seething ball of magma, so the water that it began with would have evaporated into space. As a result, planetary scientists have long debated which of two types of objects, comets or asteroids, were more responsible for delivering Earth’s water. Read more Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
The asteroid 2002 AM31 will be just over 3 million miles away when it zooms by Earth Sunday, July 22. The online skywatching website Slooh Space Camera will provide two webcasts to show views from telescopes. Original post on space.com Comments on reddit.com
Peter Diamandis has a perspective that’s too expansive for a single planet. He built his first companies—12 of them—as social and Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
Asteroids that formed in the inner solar system are the most likely source of the majority of Earth’s water, a new study suggests. Original post on space.com Comments on digg.com
Watch it live tonight: An asteroid that NASA astronomers compared to the size of a city block dubbed 2012 LZ1, is roughly 502 metres wide, and will come within 14 Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system’s population of potentially hazardous asteroids. Original post on nasa.gov Comments on digg.com
Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system’s population of potentially hazardousasteroids. The results reveal new information about their total numbers, origins and the possibledangers they may pose. Potentially hazardous… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on digg.com
