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NASA CNEOS » News:

• Earth May Have Captured a 1960s-Era Rocket Booster
  Publicēts: 2020-11-12
  Earth has captured a tiny object from its orbit around the Sun and will keep it as a temporary satellite for a few months before it escapes back to a ... Turpināt lasīt »
• School Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth
  Publicēts: 2020-09-22
  A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighborhood on Thursday, Sept. 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) above our planet's surface. ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth - the Closest Flyby on Record
  Publicēts: 2020-08-18
  Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Asteroid 1998 OR2 to Safely Fly Past Earth This Week
  Publicēts: 2020-04-28
  A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 2-kilometer-wide (1.5-mile-wide) object in great detail. ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Small Asteroid to Safely Fly by Earth
  Publicēts: 2020-04-28
  A relatively small asteroid, about 4 to 8 meters in diameter, will fly safely past Earth just before 3pm today, Apr. 28 (Eastern U.S. time). NASA is tracking the object, ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Tiny Object Discovered in Distant Orbit Around the Earth
  Publicēts: 2020-02-27
  A small object, presumed to be a tiny asteroid, has been discovered in a distant orbit about the Earth, a highly unusual circumstance, since asteroids normally orbit the Sun. The ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor
  Publicēts: 2019-09-12
  A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The object - designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) - ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Small Asteroid of Concern will Safely Pass Next Month
  Publicēts: 2019-08-15
  The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has determined with new analysis by its Sentry impact monitoring system that a small asteroid whose uncertain position was of concern will pass ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Largest Asteroid To Pass This Close To Earth in a Century
  Publicēts: 2019-08-06
  On the evening of Thursday, July 24, a football-field-sized asteroid passed close to the Earth with very little warning. The asteroid, designated 2019 OK, approached Earth at about 40,400 miles ... Turpināt lasīt »
• NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere
  Publicēts: 2019-06-27
  When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something that wasn't lightning last Saturday, a scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion ... Turpināt lasīt »

Meteorite Times Magazine » News:

• Blanket Texas: Meteorite vs Tornado
  Publicēts: 2020-11-02
  A lone shooting star graced the evening sky of the Lone Star state back in 1909, one of only two witnessed meteorite falls ... Turpināt lasīt »
• More Than Dust in a Bottle
  Publicēts: 2020-11-02
  Over the last twenty-five years, I have cut a great many Allende stones. In the last month, I have cut a 600+ gram ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Erg Chech 002 Achondrite-ung
  Publicēts: 2020-11-02
  Erg Chech 002 Achondrite-ung was found in the sand dunes of southwest Algeria in May 2020. Stones range in size from pebbles to ... Turpināt lasīt »
• An Extraterrestrial Protein identified in the Allende & Acfer 086 CV3 Carbonaceous Chondrites
  Publicēts: 2020-11-02
  The year 1969 was a pivotal point in the history of space science. The Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrite fell on February 8, 1969 ... Turpināt lasīt »
• YouTube Gold Basin Project
  Publicēts: 2020-11-02
  This November 2020 is the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the Gold Basin strewn field. I doubt that anything will be organized ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Aguas Zarcas 24.6 and 41.2 grams
  Publicēts: 2020-11-01
  Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. The post Aguas Zarcas 24.6 ... Turpināt lasīt »
• The Blackwell Meteorite: We’d expect nothing less from the Sooner State
  Publicēts: 2020-09-02
  In the previous issue of the Meteorite Times, I highlighted a famous Oklahoma meteorite fall named Lost City. While Lost City is arguably ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Meteor Crater 100th Anniversary
  Publicēts: 2020-09-02
  The tumbler is tumbling tektites and I am cutting and preparing meteorites regularly during this time of being homebound. I have several hobbies ... Turpināt lasīt »
• Several Meteorites Found in the SW Deserts of the USA.
  Publicēts: 2020-09-02
  Some of these stony meteorites have already been classified. USA150806 This stone wasn’t “Recognized” as a meteorite until 2019 August. Now classified as ... Turpināt lasīt »
• NWA 8781 C-ungr
  Publicēts: 2020-09-02
  Northwest Africa 8781 C-ungr weighs 380 grams between several stones found together near Foum Zguid, Morocco, in July 2014. I find the reasoning ... Turpināt lasīt »

Meteoritical Bulletin Database » News:

• Aydar 006 (H3)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Northwest Africa 5490 (LL3)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Northwest Africa 13642 (Ureilite)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Northwest Africa 13651 (Eucrite)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Northwest Africa 13657 (Eucrite-melt breccia)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Northwest Africa 13658 (Eucrite-pmict)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Northwest Africa 13659 (Eucrite)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Northwest Africa 13663 (Eucrite-br)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Northwest Africa 13668 (Eucrite)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10
• Toconao 006 (H3)
  Publicēts: 2021-01-10

Space Daily » Meteoritics News:

• Asteroids vs. microbes
  Publicēts: 2021-01-15
  Paris (ESA) Jan 15, 2021 Inside one of the containers of this 40-cm-across miniature laboratory in orbit, a battle is set to start between asteroid-like fragments and rock-hungry microbes, to probe their use for space mining in the future. The University of Edinburgh's 'BioAsteroid' payload is one of multiple experiments running ... Turpināt lasīt »

• NASA’s first mission to the Trojan Asteroids integrates its second scientific instrument
  Publicēts: 2021-01-07
  NASA’s first mission to the Trojan Asteroids integrates its second scientific instrument(5 January 2021 - NASA Goddard) Turpināt lasīt »

The Space Review » News:

• Review: Extraterrestrial
  Publicēts: 2021-01-11
  In 2017, astronomers discovered an object passing through our solar system which most concluded was the first interstellar asteroid. Jeff Foust reviews a book by a Harvard astronomer who tries to make the case that the object is instead an alien artifact. Turpināt lasīt »
• The case for Apophis
  Publicēts: 2020-11-30
  In April 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass close to the Earth, posing no threat of impact but instead offering an opportunity for scientists. Jeff Foust reports on discussions at a recent workshop on the potential missions that could be flown during the flyby and the rationales for them. Turpināt lasīt »
• The space resources debate pivots from asteroids to the Moon
  Publicēts: 2020-11-23
  Five years ago this week, President Obama signed into law a bill that granted companies rights to space resources they extracted. Jeff Foust describes how that effort, intended to enable asteroid mining, has evolved to support the use of lunar resources as part of Artemis and related initiatives. Turpināt lasīt »
• TAG, Bennu, you're it
  Publicēts: 2020-10-19
  On Tuesday, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will attempt to touch down on the surface of asteroid Bennu and collect samples for return to Earth. Jeff Foust reports on how this effort, already technically challenging, has turned out to be even more difficult than originally expected. Turpināt lasīt »

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