Asteroid Apophis

SUMMARY
Researchers at NASA/JPL, Caltech, and Arecibo Observatory have released the results of radar observations of the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis, along with an in-depth analysis of its motion. The research will affect how and when scientists measure, predict, or consider modifying the asteroid’s motion. The paper has been [...]

By MICHIO KAKU
Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency, caught scientists off guard back in January when he called for a closed meeting of Russian
scientists to counter a killer asteroid headed our way. He said that a potential impact from the asteroid Apothis around 2036 could kill hundreds of [...]

Yesterday, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to bring the Hayabusa probe down to Earth in Australia, hopefully bringing bits of an asteroid down with it.

The probe visited asteroid 25143 Itokawa in 2005 and attempted to collect samples of dust and pebbles from the rock. Because [...]

On Sunday, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to bring the Hayabusa probe down to Earth in Australia, hopefully bringing bits of an asteroid down with it.
The probe visited asteroid 25143 Itokawa in 2005 and attempted to collect samples of dust and pebbles from the rock. Because of glitches [...]

Newswise — A near-Earth asteroid named 2005 YU55 – on the list of potentially dangerous asteroids – was observed with the Arecibo Telescope’s planetary radar on April 19, 2010 when it was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth, which is about 6 times the distance to the moon, according to [...]

WASHINGTON — Scientists have found lots of life-essential water – frozen as ice – in an unexpected place in our solar system: an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.
The discovery of significant asteroid ice has several consequences. It could help explain where early Earth first got its water. It makes asteroids more [...]

Asteroid Apophis is a rock asteroid the size of a football field. If it were to impact the Earth is would be like 125,000 Hiroshima sized bombs. It would cause an earthquake magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale as the impact crater would be 3.4 miles across and 03 miles deep. The impact fireball [...]

On April 15th, President Obama made his case to NASA workers in Florida on Thursday for abandoning plans to return to the moon and instead aim for asteroids, Mars and more robotic missions. This could be a great idea where we can learn everything there is to know about potentially harmful asteroids. The [...]

Check out this from the HuffingtonPost.com. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Landing a man on the moon was a towering achievement. Now the president has given NASA an even harder job, one with a certain Hollywood quality: sending astronauts to an asteroid, a giant speeding rock, just 15 years from now.
Space experts say [...]

An apparent meteor in Wisconsin and Iowa lit up the sky around 10:10 p.m. Central Time last night.
The ‘fireball in the sky’ was seen by hundreds, causing a flood of social networking activity. Said one Facebook user, Renee DeVries, “It looked like a red flare and then it changed to a yellowish [...]