Apr 20
With Earth Day round the bend, you’d expect to hear some positive news regarding our planet and the celestial bodies that surround it; instead we have some not-so-good-news. According to … Continue reading
Apr 09
The Asteroid Redirect Mission, which has a fairly self-explanatory name, is part of NASA’s mission to develop technologies for redirecting and otherwise neutralizing possible asteroid threats. With the mission comes … Continue reading
Mar 22
One of the research areas that NASA is involved in is the Asteroid Redirect Mission. This happens to be one of the key elements of study that hope to put … Continue reading
Mar 11
Last year, NASA introduced its partnership with Planetary Resources and upcoming Grand Asteroid Challenge, which pits humanity against the race to protect our planet from potentially devastating asteroids. On Monday, … Continue reading
Mar 06
Hubble has captured the destruction of a 200,000-ton asteroid in the asteroid belt for "the first time ever." It slowly broke apart for unknown reasons, scientists say. University of California at Los Angeles’ David Jewitt, says that "this [was] a rock, and seeing it fall apart before our eyes is pretty amazing."
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Mar 05
Asteriod DX110
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Did you see it? Asteroid 2014 DX110 was set to pass by Earth today and come within 216,000 miles of our beautiful planet. The Slooh Space Camera was set up to live broadcast starting at 4pm eastern time. 2014 DX110 is one of the closest asteroids Earth has seen in recent months. Many asteroids fly past us everyday but none come within one lunar distance of us, so this is a rare and exciting event. Watch the replay of the live stream here.
Mar 05
A rather large asteroid named 2014 DX110 is set to make a “close approach” to the Earth today. Astronomers say the asteroid will indeed pass between the Earth and Moon. While that sounds frighteningly close to use, it’s actually very far away.
NASA says that the asteroid passing between the earth and the moon is a “non event.” The asteroid will be 217,000 miles from the Earth at its closest point. That is 9/10ths of the distance from the Earth to the moon.
The asteroid is 90-feet across and will speed by at 33,000 mph. It will be within that cosmically close 217,000-mile range for a while today. If you want to see it you can log into the Slooh.com website for the Canary island telescope to check it out starting at 3:30pm EST.
The asteroid has a 1 in 10,000,000 chance of hitting the Earth during its fly by, which is still 17.5 times more likely than you winning the Powerball jackpot.
[via USA Today]
Mar 05
If you are the sort that likes to worry about an asteroid hitting the Earth, you have little to fear today. NASA says that the flyby of asteroid 2014 DX110 … Continue reading
Feb 05
NASA’s efforts on the Red Planet have resulted in thousands of images, some more mystifying than others, but few quite as powerful as a high-resolution photograph taken of a fresh … Continue reading
Jan 20
Rosetta—the first man-made spaceship designed to intercept and land on an comet—is alive and well. It just sent its first signal to the world after going into sleep mode 31 months ago. Scientists were anxious, hoping that the computer and the interplanetary probe would alright. All systems: nominal.
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