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 [...]
Tariq Malik
SPACE.com Managing Editor
SPACE.com tariq Malik
space.com Managing Editor
space.com – Tue Apr 6, 7:30 pm ET
A newly discovered asteroid will zip close by Earth Thursday, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet even though it is passing within the orbit of the moon.
The asteroid, called 2010 GA6, is a relatively small space rock about [...]
This Wednesday an object 33 to 50 feet wide is going to whizz past earth, 80,000 miles away. Astronomers say that it is not heading in our direction but can be seen by a small telescope on Wednesday at 7:47 AM EST.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_sc/us_sci_space_miss
The time is 4:36 Am Greenwich Mean Time on Friday the 13th of April 2029. A 25 million ton space rock called 99942 could possibly hit Earth which, if happens, could pack the explosive energy of 65,000 Hiroshima bombs. If an impact were to occure, this 820 foot asteroid popularly named Apophis could create an [...]
I got to tell you, Asteroid Apophis is really getting laughed at by the media. There are asteroids hitting the earth every month and it gets little attention. It is not until the Russian scientists that say there is a good chance of impact in 2036 that the news spends a half day talking about [...]
In outer space. That is the short answer. The long answer still has elements of outer space but is much more complex. But the good news is that it is heading in our direction, or is that the bad news? It could miss us, right?
What is an Asteroid?
An asteroid is a celestial body, small or large, which orbits the sun with the other objects that are in our solar system, things like planets. Most asteroids are smaller then planets and very few actually get to be large. Every year, literally thousands of new asteroids are discovered.
In December of 2004, [...]
How is it that the Russians are taking the lead to preventing Asteroid Apophis? Could it be that the Russians know more than the NASA scientists that say it won’t impact the Earth? There are also rumors that there could be a possible impact by 2032. We will have more to say about that. The [...]
Soon to come an asteroid that could kill us all, or perhaps only some of us. But what will it matter, all hell will have broken lose on earth anyway. The world is right in the path of this 1,500 foot Asteroid called Apophis.
On October 2005 it had been predicted that Asteroid Apophis will pass [...]