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 [...]
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 [...]