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Hera asteroid mission's side-trip to Mars
Phys.org· 2 weeks agoESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos ...
Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks Careening Around Our Solar System
The New York Sun· 5 days agoIn an unprecedented leap in space research, scientists at the Asteroid Institute and the University...
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· 6 days agoWhile none of the newly found intergalactic boulders were on a collision course with Earth, the...
Planetary Defense - DART - NASA Science
NASA· 6 days agoIn the weeks following DART’s kinetic impact, when the asteroid pair was within 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) of Earth, a world-wide team of astronomers used dozens ...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images
Space via Yahoo News· 4 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· 3 days agoNASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to test out planetary defense technology in...
This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars
SPACE.com· 6 days agoScheduled to launch in October, Hera's main mission is to fly to the binary asteroid system called...
Asteroid Ryugu holds secrets of our solar system's past, present and future
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSamples of asteroid Ryugu, collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, have revealed the impact solar...
Nuclear Weapons and Space Objects
Arms Control Association· 5 days agoArms Control Today May 2024 By William N. Faulkner I enjoyed David Koplow’s investigation (“Planetary Defense: The Nuclear Option Against Asteroids ...
