Kalind Cory Carpenteradded this to Space ExplorationAsteroids China to Launch Ambitious Asteroid-Comet Mission in 2022space.com China is expanding its robotic space-exploration plans far beyond the moon. The nation, whose Chang'e 4 spacecraft pulled off the first-ever soft …
Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesChina China to explore asteroids and comets in upcoming missionFox News - Chris CiacciaFollowing the successful landing of its Chang'e 4 spacecraft on the far side of the Moon earlier this year, China is looking to expand its space program by exploring an asteroid and a comet within the
UFOAlienRealityadded this to UfoAlienReality.com Latest NewsOSIRIS-REx Stopping an Earth-Bound Asteroid in its Tracks (Op-Ed)space.com Cathy Plesko, Ph.D., is a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: …
The Sunadded this to Science newsAsteroids Crackpot conspiracy theorist makes most bonkers claim yet after finding ‘alien sculpture of a nude WOMAN’ on athesun.co.uk - Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter WE'VE seen a lot of strange claims from conspiracy theorists down the years, but this one surely takes the biscuit. A US alien-hunter claims to have …
SlashGearadded this to SlashGear SciencePlay buttonAsteroids While Japan's bombing one asteroid, NASA's bouncing off anotherslashgear.com - Chris Burns Don’t fret, armageddon-fearing folks, NASA’s on the case just as much as Japan. They’ve not yet dropped the same amount of bombs as Japan – but …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsTechnology Self-driving spacecraft could protect Earth from asteroid impactsDigital Trends In case Earth is ever threatened by an asteroid, we should have a new protector to look out for us — Hera, a self-driving spacecraft developed by the …
ALena.kadded this to NASA, Space & Earth's CoreAsteroids NASA’s asteroid probe shot Bennu with a laser, and this is the resultbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived at the diamond-shaped space rock known as Bennu a few months …
JJoeadded this to good..bad...and ugly...Geek Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Blasts Artificial Crater in Asteroid Ryugu's SurfaceGizmodo - Catie Keck Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has completed yet another intense mission: It used an explosive to blast a crater in the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. …
Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesAsteroids Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully 'bombs' asteroidFox News - James RogersJapan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully “bombed” asteroid Ryugu in the name of scientific research. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Hayabusa2 dropped a small explosive box sent
A rendezvous with asteroid Bennunature.com - www.nature.com 1. Lauretta, D. S. et al. Space Sci. Rev. 212, 925–984 (2017). 2. Bierhaus, E. B. et al. Space Sci. Rev. 214, 107 (2018). 3. Bos, B. J. Space Sci. Rev. 214, 37 …
Audioburstadded this to Audioburst Editors' PicksSpacecraft Listen: Visiting BennuAudioburst - Innovation Now "As many of us were preparing to welcome in the new year. Nasr's assias. Rex was breaking a space exploration record. This is innovation now bringing …
The New York Timesadded this to ScienceAsteroids For Deeper Insights, Japanese Space Mission Bombed an Asteroid to Make a CraterThe New York Times - By MICHAEL ROSTON and KENNETH CHANGA Japanese space mission that has been studying an asteroid not far from Earth on Thursday night (Friday in Japan) fired a copper projectile at its surface. A camera also released during the operation
OSIRIS-REx Reading Rocks: OSIRIS-RExtucsonweekly.com - Jeff Gardner Since arriving on Dec. 3, 2018, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has orbited the asteroid Bennu more than a dozen times Since arriving on Dec. 3, 2018, the …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoOSIRIS-REx Bennu Visualized by OLA - OSIRIS-REx Missionasteroidmission.org - www.asteroidmission.org en_US article This three-dimensional view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space …
SYFY WIREadded this to SYFY WIREPlay buttonScience Steampunk rocket: Engineers design a steam-powered asteroid spacecraftsyfy.com - Phil Plait It seems that the single biggest problem with exploring the solar system is, simply, fuel. It takes a lot of fuel to get a rocket into space, and then …
Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesScience Rare disintegrating asteroid spied by Hubble TelescopeFox News - Space.comThis is what it looks like when an asteroid starts to fall apart. Two long, narrow tails of material are streaming from (6478) Gault, a 2.5-mile-wide (4 kilometers) rock in the main asteroid belt between
Digital Trendsadded this to Cool TechAsteroids Burnin’ through the sky: stereoscopic image of asteroid by Queen’s Brian MayDigital Trends Asteroid Bennu is full of surprises. Not only has it been spewing out plumes of particles, but it also turns out to be much less smooth on its …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsAsteroids Grab a bit of asteroid Bennu? Turns out, it’s tougher than expectedearthsky.org - By Eleanor Imster The OSIRIS-REx mission, which plans to return the 1st-ever asteroid sample to Earth, is facing some unexpected challenges. The first close-up …
Forbesadded this to TechnologyAsteroids Asteroid New: Gault Flying Apart And Bennu Is Erupting [Infographic]Forbes - Kevin AndertonIn my last Asteroid News post, I said that March was going to be an exciting month and it did not disappoint. Hubble watched an asteroid in its disintegration process and the ORISIS-REx mission had some
Shane Leschasinadded this to scientificalOSIRIS-REx Rare Disintegrating Asteroid Spied by Hubble Telescope (Photo)space.com This is what it looks like when an asteroid starts to fall apart. Two long, narrow tails of material are streaming from (6478) Gault, a 2.5-mile-wide …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsNASA Rock On: NASA releases artsy shots of 2 asteroidsAssociated Press - By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace WriterCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has released a pair of artsy shots of two little asteroids. Thursday's picture shows an asteroid coming apart at its dusty seams, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope
OSIRIS-REx All planets great and smallnature.com - www.nature.com Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is one of a range of bodies in the Solar System to have been reached by space missions in the past months. Crowd-sourcing …
jjcorkrumadded this to Around the UniverseFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoOSIRIS-REx Asteroid Bennu has Already Thrown Material off into Space 11 Times Since OSIRIS-REx Arriveduniversetoday.com - Matt Williams The OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed some interesting things about the asteroid Bennu, which includes the 11 plumes it witnessed in the past 3 …
Asteroids Grab a bit of asteroid Bennu? Not so fastfuturity.org - Daniel Stolte-Arizona The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s first up-close observations of its target, the asteroid Bennu, suggest it poses a bigger challenge than mission engineers …
JJoeadded this to good..bad...and ugly...Asteroids Asteroid Ryugu is porous, shaped like a spinning top, and is formed of rubbleDigital Trends The Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, has been exploring a distant asteroid named Ryugu with its probe, Hayabusa 2. After arriving at its destination 200 …
Shane Leschasinadded this to esotericaAsteroids Unexpected particle plumes discovered jetting out of asteroid BennuDigital Trends The asteroid Bennu is the target of a NASA mission to collect a sample and return it to Earth, in order to learn about the formation of the early …
NASA Nobody knows if NASA’s OSIRIS-REx can pull off its daring asteroid-sampling maneuverbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first arrived at the large space rock known as Bennu late last year, and it’s spent the first few months of 2019 …
The Sunadded this to The SunDoomsday New Nasa photo of Bennu doomsday asteroid is ‘littered with alien tech’, conspiracy theorists claimthesun.co.uk - Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter NASA has released a new photo of a doomsday asteroid – and it's whipped conspiracy theorists into a frenzy. They say the image proves that a …
Popular PhotographyAsteroids Asteroid Bennu is ...exploding?Popular Photography - By Jessica Boddy Ever since the NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx reached the asteroid known as Bennu in December of last year, it’s been quietly orbiting and snapping …
Axiosadded this to ScienceNASA NASA finds near-Earth asteroid Bennu is ejecting rocky material into spaceAxios - Andrew Freedman The near-Earth asteroid Bennu is an active asteroid that periodically ejects rocky material into space, according to early results from NASA's …
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