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Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks Careening Around Our Solar System
The New York Sun· 4 days agoIn an unprecedented leap in space research, scientists at the Asteroid Institute and the University...
Hera asteroid mission's side-trip to Mars
Phys.org· 1 week agoESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos ...
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
SPACE.com· 2 weeks agoKamo'oalewa, or "469219 Kamoʻoalewa" as it is officially designated, was discovered in 2016 by the...
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of...
NY Post via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWhile none of the newly found intergalactic boulders were on a collision course with Earth, the...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThat's closer than the average distance between our planet and the moon. Scientists have so far...
'Lucy’s baby’ asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to test out planetary defense technology in...
Asteroid Ryugu holds secrets of our solar system's past, present and future
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSamples of asteroid Ryugu, collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, have revealed the impact solar...
This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoDimorphos, as you might recall, was part of NASA's DART mission, a planetary defense test that saw a...
Nuclear Weapons and Space Objects
Arms Control Association· 4 days agoArms Control Today May 2024 By William N. Faulkner I enjoyed David Koplow’s investigation (“Planetary Defense: The Nuclear Option Against Asteroids ...
Planetary Defense Overview - NASA Science
NASA· 5 days agoFor the past several decades, NASA has engaged in studying near-Earth Objects, or NEOs, which are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun and come within...
