Search Results for 'Asteroid'

Amateur astronomers to boost hazardous asteroids hunt

Washington: ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping an eye on space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to cause concern. The asteroid [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Amateur astronomers boost ESA’s asteroid hunt

A partnership with the UK’s Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency’s space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks. ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) pr [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Amateur astronomers discover a near-Earth asteroid

A team of amateur astronomers has discovered a previously unknown asteroid in orbit that brings it near the Earth, highlighting the contributions regular folks can make to planetary defense, scientists announced Wednesday. The skywatch [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Big Asteroid's Approach in November Excites Astronomers

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will come closer to Earth this autumn than our own moon does, causing scientists to hold their breath as it zooms by. But they'll be nervous with excitement, not with worry about a [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Asteroid barely misses Earth

AN ASTEROID about the size of one that blasted Siberia a century ago just buzzed the Earth.The asteroid named 2009 DD45 was about 48,800 miles (78,500 kilometres) from Earth when it zipped past early Monday, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborato [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Asteroid near-miss prompts calls for astronomy funding

Astronomers have calling for more funding to watch southern skies, after an asteroid took sky-gazers by surprise and entered the earth's atmosphere over Africa yesterday.Yesterday morning astronomers in Arizona reported seeing a tiny astero [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Comet's Dust Resembles Asteroid's

When scientists planned a mission to bring back samples of a comet to Earth, they expected to find bits of materials from the original building blocks of the solar system. Instead, the samples from Comet Wild-2 (pronounced "vilt [...]

Posted On : Jan, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

Dawn Spacecraft Prepared For Mission to Asteroid Belt

The Dawn spacecraft arrived at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., at 9 a.m. EDT today. Dawn, NASA's mission into the heart of the asteroid belt, is at the facility for final processing and launch operations. Dawn's launch perio [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2007 | Comments : 0

Searching For the Grandest Asteroid Tour

Asteroids are Earth's closest celestial neighbors, sometimes passing closer to Earth than even the Moon. And yet, to date, only two spacecraft have ever remained in proximity to one of these bodies. Last month, orbit mechanics experts from [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Binary Asteroid Revealed As Twin Rubble Piles

Roping together observations from the world's largest telescopes as well as the small instrument of a local backyard amateur, astronomers have assembled the most complete picture yet of a pair of asteroids whirling around one another in a p [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2007 | Comments : 0

Scientists Find A Solar-powered Asteroid

For the very first time, astronomers have witnessed the speeding up of an asteroid's rotation, and have shown that it is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never seen before. The international team of scientists used an armada of tel [...]