Nuking asteroids to protect Earth may be best option, according to expert
At least one experts says we should rely on nuclear weapons for protecting Earth from asteroids.
Read More →The Asteroid Set to Make a Close Encounter with the Earth on Friday Has a Moon
By Marc Bouche | SpaceRef New radar data obtained by NASA shows Asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. The asteroid will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. The new radar data was obtained on May 29th when the asteroid was [...]
Read More →WISE mission finds lost asteroid family members between Mars and Jupiter
By Chillymanjaro | The Watchers Millions of infrared snapshots from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved asteroid family members in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. NEOWISE all-sky survey identified 28 new asteroid families. The next step for the team is to learn more about the original parent bodies that spawned the [...]
Read More →Asteroid-Smashing Space Probes Set for Cosmic Crash in 2022
By Miriam Kramer | Space.com Scientists in Europe and the United States are moving forward with plans to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a huge nearby asteroid in 2022 to see inside the space rock. The ambitious European-led Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, or AIDA, is slated to launch in 2019 to send two spacecraft — [...]
Read More →International Agreement on Asteroid Threats Reached
By Keith Cowing | Space Ref The striking coincidences of the asteroid 2012 DA14 flying close to the Earth, and a large meteor crash in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region on 15 February, showed again the need for coordinated international efforts to predict, and if necessary, mitigate such threats posed by near-Earth objects in the future. This was [...]
Read More →Scientists propose building Death Star to protect Earth from asteroids
By Bryan Nelson | MNN After a large asteroid recently skimmed past the Earth at close range and a large meteor blasted across the sky over Russia, there seems to be a renewed concern about our planet’s vulnerability to a cataclysmic impact event. Though such events are rare, they are also inevitable. Countless numbers of [...]
Read More →Scientists Design Asteroid Vaporizing System
By Sally Appert | The Epoch Times Last week an asteroid flew right past Earth and a meteor hit Russia, but the next time space rocks threaten our planet, we might be better prepared. Two U.S. scientists have designed a device that could realistically be built and used to destroy an asteroid 10 times the [...]
Read More →Possible Seismic Activity on Asteroid 2012 DA14
By Dr. Tony Phillips | NASA Science For eons, Earth has felt the tremors of asteroids striking our planet. From the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the felled forests around Tunguska in 1908, the space rocks keep coming. This week, Earth strikes back. When asteroid 2014 DA14 makes a record close approach to [...]
Read More →Record Setting Asteroid Flyby
NASA Science Talk about a close shave. On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet’s surface. There’s no danger of a collision, but the space rock, designated 2012 DA14, has NASA’s attention. “This is a record-setting close approach,” says Don [...]
Read More →Asteroid-mining project aims for deep-space colonies
By Mike Wall | MNN A new asteroid-mining company launches Tuesday with the goal of helping humanity expand across the solar system by tapping the vast riches of space rocks. The new firm, called Deep Space Industries Inc., announced today (Jan. 22) that it plans to launch a fleet of prospecting spacecraft in 2015, then begin [...]
Read More →ESA mulling over an ‘Asteroid deflection mission’, seeks ideas
By NIX | The Watchers The thought of asteroid impact on Earth is intimidating – one that’s connected with catastrophic devastation in past and have always been a hot topic for fictional stories. Though space agencies are continuously watching the sky in search of potential future impact events, Earth is most definitely not immune to such impact yet. [...]
Read More →‘Doomsday Asteroid’ Bigger Than Estimated – ESA
RiaN New observations made by Herschel space observatory show that asteroid Apophis, which is considered the most serious “space” threat to Earth, is bigger than first estimated, the European Space Agency said on its website on Wednesday. Apophis, dubbed “the doomsday asteroid” in the popular media, swept by Earth on Wednesday at a little less [...]
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