Asteroid

Arecibo Telescope Gets Detailed Look at Passing Asteroid

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:42:37 GMT

Source: www.scientificamerican.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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NASA gets close up look at red asteroid

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:07:37 GMT

Source: www.upi.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com A radio telescope image of the Asteroid 1998 QE2 revealed the space rock has a moon, and is a so-called 'primitive' Asteroid. ...

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:19:10 GMT

Source: www.spacedaily.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2013 NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all Asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge, which was announced at an Asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large-scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, ...

Asteroid Mining Company Planetary Resources Harnesses Freelancer.com Contest Platform For Global Marketing Campaign

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:45:15 GMT

Source: www.crowdsourcing.org --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer at Planetary Resources said; "Freelancer.com has allowed us to expand our reach and exposure of this community funded project to a global audience of creative individuals. The contest platform has created a sense of excitement and awareness for the project around the planet which has ensured that our goal of making space exploration open to everyone is achieved." SOURCE:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/Asteroid-mining-company-planetary-resources-harnesses-freelancercom-contest-platform-for-global-marketing-campaign-212101901.html Tags: arkyd , crowdsource , crowdsourcing , freelancer , orbiting-space-telescope , planetary-resources Comments ...

NASA's asteroid-wrangling plan may get shot down

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:33:06 GMT

Source: www.floridatoday.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
NASA pushes its Asteroid capture initiative, even as some congressional lawmakers aim to kill it. ...

NASA Asteroid Retrieval Mission Becomes Global Grand Challenge

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:28:12 GMT

Source: spacecoalition.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
NASA’s proposed Asteroid identification and redirect mission proposal was elevated to “Grand Challenge” status in Washington on Wednesday by the Obama Administration. Artist's illustration of Asteroid threat. Image Credit/NASA The featured theme of President Obama’s proposed 2014 NASA budget is now on par with John Kennedy’s call to reach the moon with human explorers, unraveling the human genome, exploiting solar power as a clean energy source and increasing the reliability and convenience of electric cars, Tom Kalil, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s deputy director for technology and innovation, told a NASA-sponsored Washington conference on the issue Tuesday. The Grand Challenge strategy calls on other federal agencies, U. S. industry, academia and citizen scientists as well as their international counterparts to rally around an ambitious attempt to complete the cataloguing of asteroids that pose a collision threat to the Earth and demonstrating a deflection strategy. “We want to prove that we are in fact smarter than the dinosaurs,” said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, who helped to open the half-day conference that featured a range of NASA experts on the topic. Lori Garver addresses NASA industry and partner day conference in Washington. Photo Credit/NASA Her reference was to a major impact from a Near Earth Object an estimated 65 million years ago that wiped out the giant reptiles. Had the ...

House bill: 'Hey NASA, that asteroid retrieval plan? Fuggedaboutit'

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:14:25 GMT

Source: www.theregister.co.uk --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Republican-led committee also swings budget axe at climate science If the Republican-led House Subcommittee on Space has its way, NASA's proposed Asteroid-retrieval mission will be killed, the agency's budget will be capped for the next two years at about 5 per cent less than last year's, and NASA's Earth observation efforts will be cut back.… ...

NASA Introduces Asteroid Grand Challenge to Protect Earth

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:48:00 GMT

Source: www.dailytech.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
NASA also issued a request for information (RFI) for ideas on locating, redirecting, and exploring asteroids ...

Finding all asteroid threats to human populations: NASA announces asteroid grand challenge

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:16:44 GMT

Source: www.sciencedaily.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
NASA has announced a Grand Challenge focused on finding all Asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge is a large-scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists. It complements NASA's recently announced mission to redirect an Asteroid and send humans to study it. ...

NASA’s Grand Asteroid Challenge pits the private sector against space rocks

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:00:16 GMT

Source: someit.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
NASA has been aggressive about identifying near-Earth objects that could pose a threat to our planet in the future, as well as pursuing ideas to deal with space rock aimed at Earth. It has taken its efforts to the next level with its new Grand Asteroid Challenge, which was announced at the space agency’s headquarters Read The Full Story source: http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/d-6yMuW4n5Q/ ...

Matt’s Favorites: Yahoo Comes Clean, NASA Unveils Asteroid Catching Plans, And More

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:16:41 GMT

Source: detroit.cbslocal.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
What’s the latest, greatest, and absolutely most wonderfulest from the ever-expanding world of high technology? Well, pull up an electron or three and check out these mindbenders… * There may be killer asteroids headed for Earth, and NASA has decided to do something about it . The space agency announced a new “Grand Challenge” Tuesday to find all dangerous space rocks and figure out how to stop them from destroying Earth. The new mission builds on projects already underway at NASA, including a plan to capture an Asteroid , pull it in toward the moon and send astronauts to visit it. As part of the Grand Challenge, the agency issued a “request for information” to solicit ideas from industry, academia and the public on how to improve the Asteroid mission plan. * Yahoo is the latest tech company to release new details on U.S. government data requests. The Internet giant joins Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft in attempts to provide more transparency following allegations that the National Security Agency (NSA) had direct access to its servers . * Google has asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to lift a gag order, saying it has the constitutional right to clear its name by discussing government data requests . The company filed a five-page motion before the court on Tuesday afternoon, arguing it has “a right under the First Amendment to publish” summary statistics about requests made under the Foreign Intel ...

Congress Considers Nixing NASA Asteroid Mission

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:36:43 GMT

Source: www.space.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
A House Science space subcommittee bill would direct NASA astronauts back to the moon. ...

NASA wants your ideas on how to capture an asteroid

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:19:00 GMT

Source: www.floridatoday.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
NASA cast a wide net today and called for everyone�s ideas on how to accomplish a White House-sanctioned mission to capture an Asteroid and send... ...

NASA issues asteroid 'Grand Challenge' to all

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:09:17 GMT

Source: news.cnet.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
NASA calls on industry, academia, government agencies, and citizens alike to find ways to identify and ward off Asteroid threats. [Read more] ...

NASA vows to track every asteroid near Earth as soon as it figures out how

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:56:42 GMT

Source: gigaom.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
NASA officials are planning to monitor all asteroids that pass near Earth, they announced Tuesday, an ambitious effort that will need international collaboration between government organizations, private companies, universities and citizens. The space agency currently spots 95 percent of near-Earth asteroids larger than 3,280 feet across. They detect less than 1 percent of asteroids smaller than 328 feet. The new plan calls for tracking any rock large enough to damage human civilization, including those less than 33 feet wide. That would catch objects like the 56-foot meteor that exploded over Russia in February. The agency would also collect thorough information on asteroids’ size, composition, spin and surface properties. NASA would deflect any Earth-bound asteroids larger than 328 feet. How NASA will do this isn’t yet known. As of Tuesday, officials are soliciting information on how to best track, deflect and capture asteroids. Past research suggests a nuclear explosion or being hit by a spacecraft could shift an Asteroid’s course. A spacecraft could also capture one with a bag . Back in March, NASA and the House of Representatives Science Committee had a tense conversation about current Asteroid efforts, when NASA Chief Chris Bolden chastised the government for not providing enough funding after Congress accused NASA of not being prepared for an incident like the Russian meteor. The 2005 NASA Authorization Act requires the ag ...

Targets Scarce for NASA's Asteroid-Capture Mission

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:38:29 GMT

Source: www.space.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
It's possible that not a single known object meets the current criteria, one researcher says. ...

Asteroid capture program needs your help to prove we’re ‘smarter than the dinosaurs’

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:16:26 GMT

Source: www.extremetech.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The US government is planning a series of "Grand Challenges" to the public and the research sector of science, the latest of which involves keeping vigilant watch over our skies. ...

Help wanted: asteroid hunters

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:28:00 GMT

Source: www.klove.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The request comes from the White House and NASA. (The Washington Post) ...