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NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:40:30 GMT

Source: www.boston.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) â Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. ...

NASA is trying to lasso an asteroid for closer study (VIDEO)

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:31 GMT

Source: www.globalpost.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
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Europe Opens New Asteroid-Hunting Center

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:37:05 GMT

Source: www.space.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Near-Earth Object Coordination Center will serve as a hub for Europe's efforts. ...

NASA's Asteroid Mission a Dead-End to Mars?

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:14:00 GMT

Source: news.discovery.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
NASA’s plan to capture an asteroid and re-position it around the moon for an astronaut visit sounds cool, but it’s a side-show on the road to Mars. ...

NBC News issues warning for May 31 incoming Asteroid

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:52:26 GMT

Source: www.ufodigest.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
1998QE2 is a HUGE asteroid over 2 miles wide and is headed at Earth far a close encounter ...

Moon or Asteroid? Congress Debates Best Pit Stop to Mars

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:41:53 GMT

Source: www.space.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Lawmakers questioned NASA's plan to lasso an asteroid for astronauts to visit. ...

Watch Out - Another Asteroid Due To Cruise By Earth

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:16:33 GMT

Source: www.groundreport.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Readers Fox News.Com has reported that another large asteroid is planning to cruise by Earth on May 31, 2013, creating its closest approach to our planet for the next two centuries. There appears to be more asteroid activity to our planet than I can ever remember but I believe it has been happening all my life but I've not been as tuned into it as I am now. The report indicated the flyby of the expected asteroid 1998 QE2 on May 31, 2013 is approximately 1.7 miles long and the report stated it is not a threat to Earth. According to researchers this space rock will come within 3.6 million miles of Earth which is approximately 15 times the distance separating the Earth and the moon. It'll be a close approach that will be dramatic for astronomers who are planning to get a proper look at it while it cruises they'll use two huge radar telescopes, NASA's 230-foot Goldstone dish in California and the 1,000-foot Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. It's my belief that the information gathered by scientists' as they observe, examine, and study the asteroid will be of high value to our planet. The report indicated that when an asteroid approaches the Earth closely, it offers the scientific opportunities for studying its size, shape, rotation, its surface features and other things concerning its origin according to a statement made by Lance Benner of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, principal investigator for Golds ...

Asteroid 9 times larger than Queen Elizabeth 2 ship to sail past Earth on May 31

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:37:50 GMT

Source: www.aninews.in --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Washington, May 19 (ANI): asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. ...

Dormant Comets Lurking In the Asteroid Belt Are Waiting to Coma Back To Life

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:00 GMT

Source: motherboard.vice.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
( via ) Comets are living glimpses of the solar system’s rumspringa. The European Space Agency says comets are “probably the most primitive bodies in the Solar System, preserving the earliest record of material from the nebula out of which our Sun and planets were formed.” While much of the solar system’s primordial swirling dust and gas got together into planets, settled into nice steady orbits, and maybe had a moon or two, comets never gave up the old whipping around. Some comets have orbits that take them out to their homeland in the Oort Cloud–50,000 times farther away from the Sun than the Earth–over hundreds of thousands of years. Some comets come barreling through the inner solar system, smashing into planets and, scientists think, forming our oceans. Some comets, called Kreutz Sungrazers, plunge through the Suns corona. Some don’t make it back out. Like all rebels, comets can’t keep it up forever. Some comets burn out and fade away, some just burn out and become asteroids. And while Neil Young’s chestnut of wisdom “ Once you’re gone, you can’t come back ” might be true in rock and roll, it turns out it isn’t true for comets. A comet is defined by its coma—the hazy cloud of ice sublimating into gas and dust, that surrounds it and grows brighter as the comet gets closer to the Sun. It’s this coma, when hit with solar wind, that forms the comet’s tail. When a comet runs out of volatiles that form the coma, it falls dark, no ...

Giant asteroid 1998 QE2 to pass Earth on May 31

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:53:00 GMT

Source: mobilitybeat.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
A giant asteroid called 1998 QE2, named after the year it was discovered, is slated to whiz past Earth on May 31, something it won't do again for another 200 years. The asteroid is said to measure in at about 1.7-miles long, and although it will be about 3.6 million miles away from Earth as it passes, the distance is still short enough for space agencies to get detailed images of it, making the event very notable. Thus far, no one knows what this asteroid looks like, which makes the event rare and exceptional due to the relatively close distance by which it will pass. At such a distance, it . . . ...

Asteroid Market, GPS, and Software Update Problems

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:59:49 GMT

Source: forum.parrot.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
I just bought a smart and created an account on the asteroid Market. Once I am signed in on the smart it only shows 4 choices. They look bogus because there names are Test, etc. I download Fuel Log successfully from the list but when i tried to install I got failed installation. I sign in into asteroid Market on my laptop and I get many different options to download. It says "Now, you must login from your product in order to download any applications." I have signed in several times and nothing changes. Same test applications. I started this whole adventure because IGo was not working and thought that getting it registered to the market might help get IGo to work. GPS does not work and i cannot update my software. I keep getting bad file. A little frustrated but want this to work. Anyone help!!!!! ...

Near-Earth Asteroid 2013 KT1 close encounter: an image

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:24:44 GMT

Source: www.virtualtelescope.eu --- Monday, May 20, 2013
On 18 May 2013, the near-Earth asteroid 2013 KT1 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. From its orbit resulted that this minor planet was going to reach a minimum distance from the Earth of 1.3 millions of km, that is 3.19 lunar distances. At the Virtual Telescope, the 17″ robotic unit was [...] ...

Asteroid to pass near Earth on May 31

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:45:57 GMT

Source: www.guardian.co.tt --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013 A big asteroid will cruise by Earth at the end of the month, making its closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries. On February 15, the planet got a dramatic reminder of the ...

Slooh To Broadcast Massive Lunar Asteroid Explosion

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:14:27 GMT

Source: www.redorbit.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online An organization aimed at bringing celestial event programming to everyone with a computer, iPhone or iPad is planning to broadcast the fiery explosion that took place on the moon just a few months ago. On March 17 NASA astronomers witnessed how the Moon was rocked by a violent impact from an 88-pound asteroid , creating a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything the space agency had seen before. Now Slooh says it wants to bring the boulder-sized asteroid impact to a screen near you. Slooh Space Camera will be broadcasting a free, real-time feed of the lunar impact site at Mara Imbrium on Wednesday starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. The broadcast will include live commentary from astronomer Bob Berman and a panel to discuss the event in the context of Near-Earth Objects that have missed our planet. "Apparently, a number of brilliant fireballs tore through Earth's atmosphere just as the lunar surface received a visible impact bright enough to create a one second point of light, seen by anyone watching the Moon at that moment," Berman, contributing editor and monthly columnist for Astronomy Magazine, said. "This suggests that a fairly dense swarm of meteoroids zipped through our orbit at that time, two months ago." The asteroid was traveling at 56,000 miles per hour when it made a crater of about 197 feet wide. Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office said the small c ...

2.7 km long asteroid set to fly past Earth

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:52:57 GMT

Source: www.merinews.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
In the next 200 years, an asteroid will never come this close to earth as much as it is going to on May 31, 2013 at 4:59pm Eastern time. 2.7km long asteroid 1998 QE2, which will pass as close as 3.6 million miles from earth does not, however, pose any kind of threat to the planet, despite its gigantic size. ...

UA-LED ASTEROID MISSION IS A GO OSIRIS-REx, the $1 billion...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:15:34 GMT

Source: abcstarstuff.tumblr.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
UA-LED asteroid MISSION IS A GO OSIRIS-REx, the $1 billion asteroid sample return mission led by the University of Arizona, reached a major milestone on May 16: The project passed the agency-level confirmation review called Key Decision Point-C, or KDP-C. KDP-C authorized continuation of the project into the next phase of development, giving the team the authority to proceed toward launch in 2016. “This means we have now made the final deal with NASA in terms of the mission objective, the cost cap and the schedule all the way from development and launch through Earth return,” said Dante Lauretta, UA planetary science professor and the mission’s principal investigator. “We have presented our plan, including all aspects of the mission, from the engineering to the science to the schedule, and NASA has accepted that plan and committed to fully fund the mission.” The UA is leading the mission. For the first time in space-exploration history, the mission will travel to and return pristine samples of a carbonaceous asteroid with known geologic context. Such samples are critical to understanding the origin of the solar system, Earth and life, Lauretta explained. “Successfully passing KDP-C is a major milestone for the project,” said Mike Donnelly, OSIRIS-REx project manager for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “This means that the agency believes we have an executable plan to return a sample from the asteroid, Bennu. I ...

Mark your calendar. NASA plans to land a human crew on an asteroid by 2025 and o...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:00:01 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Mark your calendar. NASA plans to land a human crew on an asteroid by 2025 and on Mars in the 2030s. http://goo.gl/5Kdsv NASA Works on Long-Term Plan to Send Humans to Mars | IIP Digital iipdigital.usembassy.gov NASA scientists are looking at images and data from the surface of Mars through the rover Curiosity. What they learn will be critical information for putting a human crew on the surface of the Red Planet by the 2030s. ...

Nike Air Foamposite Pro “Asteroid Gradient”

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:21:49 GMT

Source: sneakernews.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
So the Nike Foamposite took a strange turn when we first laid eyes on the funky “Weatherman” sample , with many of our readers being rather vocal regarding the overtly ornate colorways mocked up by the Nike team. This first look at yet another graphic print on a Foamposite should coerce a similar response for sure, as the Foamposite appears to explore outer space once again with an incredible gradient on the upper and outsole and what appears to be imagery of an asteroid belt. A few more shots are just below, so take a look and let us know what you think of either the gradient treatment or this revisiting of outer space on the Foamposite, and stay tuned to Sneaker News for all Nike Foamposite updates. Read the rest of Nike Air Foamposite Pro “asteroid Gradient” © Sneaker News , 2013. | Permalink | 27 comments | Add to del.icio.us ...

NASA plans asteroid mission. First stop: Bennu

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:37:28 GMT

Source: www.planetdtv.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
A rendering of Osiris-Rex from a NASA concept video. (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) NASA's plan to go poking around on an asteroid, with the ultimate goal of snagging one of the space rocks and towing it closer to Earth, is moving forward, and a specific asteroid has been chosen to visit and sample in the next few years. NASA has announced that the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (Osiris-Rex) passed a key confirmation review Wednesday, approving the spacecraft to move into development phase. Translation: we're building a new spaceship, y'all! Related stories NASA to 'lasso' an asteroid NASA's asteroid lasso mission said to halt Apocalypse scenario NASA's grand asteroid Initiative (pictures) Not only does Osiris-Rex (nice job on the naming, NASA folks) have a green light to be built, NASA also has chosen and named the first asteroid it will visit and sample. The asteroid now known as Bennu was previously called 1999 RQ3... [Read more] Related Links: NASA's asteroid lasso mission said to halt Apocalypse scenario Enormous asteroid to zip by Earth NASA's Fermi telescope dodges a 3,100-pound bullet NASA wants to send your best haiku... to Mars NASA's Kepler telescope crippled by technical failures ? ? ? ? ...

Asteroid nine times the size of QE2 to sail past Earth

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:00:16 GMT

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
An asteroid nine times larger than the mammoth ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is due to sail past the earth later this month. Luckily, the giant space rock will get no closer than 5.8 million km, or 15 times the distance between the earth and the moon. ...