In 2002, the European Space Agency began a program called Don Quijote to find out how best to perform such a deflection.
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Europe's Plan to Move An Asteroid - Technology Review - 3 views
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Now, Stephen Wolters at the Open University in the UK and a few friends have published a new analysis of the mission saying that measuring the change in orbit is not enough. Instead, the spacecraft needs to characterise the impact in detail, determining the density of the material near the asteroid's surface, the size of the surface grains as well as the mass and speed distribution of the impact ejecta.
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Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1107.4229: Measurement Requirements For A Near-Earth Asteroid Impact Mitigation Demonstration Mission
The Associated Press: Daunting space task _ send astronauts to asteroid - 1 views
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NASA leaders say civilization may depend on it
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NASA is thinking about jetpacks, tethers, bungees, nets and spiderwebs to allow explorers to float just above the surface of it while attached to a smaller mini-spaceship.
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At the moment, there are only a handful of asteroid options and they all have names like 1999AO10 or 2009OS5.
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U.S. Should Prepare for Mars With Asteroid Flight, Panel Says - Bloomberg.com - 0 views
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The “most cost effective” scenario is a plan to visit asteroids and potential sites for future spacecraft fuel depots and fly over Mars
WISE Mission Assembled and Preparing for Launch - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - 0 views
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The mission will survey the entire sky at infrared wavelengths,
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Among expected finds from WISE are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system's asteroid belt,
Astronomers Surprised to Find Asteroid With Rings - 2 views
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For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a ring system surrounding an asteroid. The finding is a complete surprise to planetary scientists, who are yet unsure exactly how such rings could have formed. The cosmic bling was found around an object named Chariklo, which orbits in a region between Saturn and Uranus.
NASA Vesta Trek - 2 views
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NASA Releases Tool Enabling Citizen Scientists to Examine Asteroid Vesta Vesta Trek is a free, web-based application that provides detailed visualizations of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our solar system. NASA's Dawn spacecraft studied Vesta from July 2011 to September 2012. Data gathered from multiple instruments aboard Dawn have been compiled into Vesta Trek's user-friendly set of tools, enabling citizen scientists and students to study the asteroid's features. The application includes: -- Interactive maps with the ability to overlay a growing range of data sets including topography, mineralogy, abundance of elements and geology, as well as analysis tools for measuring the diameters, heights and depths of surface features and more. -- 3-D printer-exportable topography so users can print physical models of Vesta's surface. -- Standard keyboard gaming controls to manoever a first-person visualization of "flying" across the surface of the asteroid. "There's nothing like seeing something with your own eyes, but these types of detailed data-visualizations are the next best thing," said Kristen Erickson, Director, Science Engagement and Partnerships at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC.
Companies selected to provide early design work for Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission s... - 3 views
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I still have my doubts that this mission will ever happen as announced but this is a first step...
Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid - 0 views
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On the topic of asteroid composition :)
Asteroid dust could fight climate change on Earth - 1 views
Impact: Earth! - 4 views
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A website that lets you simulate the effects of a specified asteroid impact on earth.
NASA's GRAIL Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity - 1 views
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Uneven gravity patterns on moon probably caused by asteroid impacts.
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Nooo, it's TMA-1!
Asteroid deflection with spray paint - 0 views
Company aims to mine resource-rich asteroids - Light Years - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views
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For a Few Dollars More ... Except for this debatable purpose, this challenge seems interesting. They've made a presentation at ESTEC one month ago about that topic : http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/20120314_ESA_ESTEC.pdf By the way, KISS is a funny name for a space institute.
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