An Avalanche of Dark Asteroids - 1 views
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Ernesto Guido on 26 Mar 10WISE and Asteroids
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NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth - 0 views
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Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.
Ice Confirmed On An Asteroid - 0 views
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Frozen water leaves its signature over the entire surface of the asteroid 24 Themis
Satellite to study near-Earth asteroids' wobbly signature - 0 views
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'Noise' from the LISA mission will give scientists a way to study the mass and number of near-Earth asteroids.
Comets and asteroids news - 0 views
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Latest news and information about comets and asteroids
Asteroid Juno Grabs the Spotlight - 0 views
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Toward the end of September, the sun will turn a spotlight on the asteroid Juno, giving that bulky lump of rock a rare featured cameo in the night sky.
Arxiv - Albedos of Small Jovian Trojans - 0 views
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We present thermal observations of 44 Jovian Trojan asteroids with diameters (D) ranging from 5 to 24 km.
Arxiv - Detection of Earth-impacting asteroids with the next generation all-sky surveys - 0 views
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We have performed a simulation of a next generation sky survey's (Pan-STARRS 1) efficiency for detecting Earth-impacting asteroids.
Dinosaur-killing impact set Earth to broil, not burn - 0 views
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The asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago didn't incinerate life on our planet's surface - it just broiled it, a new study suggests. The work resolves nagging questions about a theory that the impact triggered deadly wildfires around the world, but it also raises new questions about just what led to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth - 0 views
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NASA's WISE mission has spotted 16 near-Earth objects that had previously been hidden in the dark
Asteroid Impactor Reported over Indonesia - 1 views
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On October 8, 2009 about 03:00 Greenwich time, an atmospheric fireball blast was observed and recorded over an island region of Indonesia. The blast is thought to be due to the atmospheric entry of a small asteroid about 10 meters in diameter that, due to atmospheric pressure, detonated in the atmosphere with an energy of about 50 kilotons (the equivalent of 100,000 pounds of TNT explosives).
Young Asteroids Age Fast with a Solar Wind Tan - 0 views
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A young asteroid's surface will age prematurely, but it's not caused by the Sun's ultraviolet rays, it's caused by the solar wind…
Could Life on Earth Have Come From Ceres? - 0 views
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Theory that life could have originated on an object in the asteroid belt named Ceres.
Astronomy: The rock that fell to Earth - 0 views
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When an asteroid was spotted heading towards our planet last October, researchers rushed to document a cosmic impact from start to finish for the first time.
Coastal Formations Not Result of Asteroid Impact - 0 views
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Coastal formations called chevrons, large U- or V-shaped features found on coastlines around the world were originally thought to be evidence of ancient
A Benevolent Sort of Asteroid Bombardment? - 0 views
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Celestial impacts can bring life as well as wipe it out, say the authors of a new study out of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Comets & Neo: New Comet Discovery: P/2009 QG31 - 0 views
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IAU circular No. 9078, issued on 2009, Sept. 29, announces that an asteroidal object, discovered with a 0.45-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD by the "La Sagra Sky Survey" (Spain), has been reported to show cometary features by several observers, involved in its astrometric follow-up.
New Comet Discovery: C/2010 A4 (SIDING SPRING) - 0 views
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AU circular No. 9107, issued on 2010, Jan. 14, announces the discovery by G. J. Garradd of an apparently asteroidal object, on CCD images taken with the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope in the course of the Siding Spring Survey.
Dynamical Constraints on the Origin of Main Belt Comets - 0 views
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In an effort to understand the origin of the Main Belt Comets (MBCs) 7968 Elst-Pizzaro, 118401, and P/2005 U1, the dynamics of these three icy asteroids and a large number of hypothetical MBCs were studied. Results of extensive numerical integrations of these objects suggest that these MBCs were formed in-place through the collisional break up of a larger precursor body.
Arxiv - Dynamic Resonance Effects in the Statistical Distributions of Asteroids and Co... - 0 views
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Some principles in the distribution of Centaurs and the "Scattered Disk" objects, as well as the Kuiper belt objects for its semi-major axes, eccentricities and inclinations of the orbits have been investigated.
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