ASTEROID popularity and ASTEROID trends

Erst kürzlich wurden neue Daten über die Anzahl der potentiell gefährlichen Asteroiden veröffentlicht: "Es gibt etwa 4700 von ihnen und einer davon ist 1999 RQ36. Er wurde am 11. September 1999 entdeckt und ist knapp 500 Meter groß. Im Februar 2009 geriet der Asteroid in die Schlagzeilen, weil man herausgefunden hat, dass er zwischen 2169 und 2199 der Erde nahe kommen wird und eine sehr, sehr k...

Scientists on NASA's asteroid sample return mission, Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), have measured the orbit of their destination asteroid, 1999 RQ36, with such accuracy they were able to directly measure the drift resulting from a subtle but important force called the Yarkovsky effect – the slight push created when the astero...

@ Florian: was ich noch nicht ganz nachzuvollziehen imstande bin:Die "potentiell gefährlichen Asteroiden", die PHAs, sind diejenigen erdnahen Asteroiden, deren MOID kleiner als 7,5 Millionen Kilometer ist. "MOID" steht dabei für "Minimum orbit intersection distance". Muss dieser Bahnabstand nicht schlicht »Null« sein, damit die Objekte gefährlich werden können? Oder ist das so gemeint, dass ab ...

For some 30 years, scientists have debated what sealed the fate of the dinosaurs. Was an asteroid impact more or less solely responsible for the catastrophic mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous geological period, 65 million years ago? Or were the dinosaurs already undergoing a long-term decline, and the asteroid was merely the coup de grace? from the San Francisco Chronicle

The finding comes in the wake of the founding of Planetary Resources, a venture backed by Avatar director James Cameron, which aims to mine asteroids for their wealth.

A newly discovered 150-foot-wide asteroid called 2012 DA14 may come so close to the Earth in February that it might hit communications satellites.

Damn! We had wondered why we hadn't heard much about this project for a while! Although Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity was originally set to premiere on November 21st of this year, the 3D sci-fi project starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney has been reportedly delayed by Warner Brothers until 2013! No official word on why, but sources [...]

If you want to be an asteroid miner, you've got some stiff competition.Less than three weeks after officially unveiling its asteroid-mining plans, the billionaire-backed firm Planetary Resources has already received thousands of job applications, officials said.On April 24, the company announced that it was looking to hire a few qualified people — not pickaxe-swinging astronauts, mind you, but ...

The giant asteroid Vesta resembles a planet more than it does other asteroids, according to Christopher Russell at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues. In six separate studies, the researchers report their analysis of data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been

The first official British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake is being trained for a mission to land on an asteroid, it can be revealed.

Der Asteroid Vesta hat einige Ähnlichkeit mit Planeten wie unserer Erde. Wissenschaftlern ist es jetzt gelungen, dem fernen Brocken einige seiner Geheimnisse zu entlocken - nicht zuletzt dank deutscher Technik.

astroengine writes "Vesta, the second largest object in the main asteroid belt, has an iron core, a varied surface, layers of rock and possibly a magnetic field — all signs of a planet in the making, not an asteroid (abstract). This is the conclusion of an international team of scientists treated to a virtual front row seat at Vesta for the past 10 months, courtesy of NASA's Dawn robotic probe....

NASA's Dawn mission has shown the distant asteroid, Vesta, is actually a proto-planet, a nascent world that never made the big leagues.

New observations from a NASA spacecraft show that the huge asteroid Vesta is a battered protoplanet left over from the solar system's early days, with a unique mix of characteristics unknown from any other space rock. [More]

The Vesta asteroid is the only remaining example of the original objects that came together to form the rocky planets like Earth, say scientists.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The giant asteroid Vesta got clobbered not once but twice, and it has the scars to prove it....

No, dinosaurs did not fart themselves to death. This is what happens when you get your information from Fox News. Dinosaurs may have farted themselves to extinction, according to a new study from British scientists. The researchers calculated that the prehistoric beasts pumped out more than 520 million tons (472 million tonnes) of methane a year -- enough to warm the planet and hasten their o...

A company called Planetary Resources has announced plans to mine asteroids that zip close by Earth, both to provide supplies for future interplanetary travelers and to bring back precious metals like platinum.

Mond 2021, Asteroid 2025, Mars 2030: Die NASA verfolgt trotz der aktuellen Abhängigkeit von Partnern weiter große Ziele. Zudem soll die ISS nach dem Willen von NASA-Chef Charles Bolden nicht die einzige Anlaufstelle im All bleiben: "Um die kommerzielle Raumfahrt überlebensfähig zu machen, braucht es mehrere Flugziele."

Dinosaurs may have been on the road to extinction before an asteroid crashed into Earth and finished the job, researchers claim.

Prices of commodities would have to reach absurd levels to make the venture profitable

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Google Inc executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are among those bankrolling a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids that orbit near Earth, the company said on Tuesday

Yesterday, a group of billionaires, scientists and engineers announced what could become the most important enterprise in human history since Columbus sailed West: an asteroid mining company called Planetary Resources. They want to jump start a completely new industry between the Earth and the Moon, one that will add trillions of dollars to the world...

It’s for real: Planetary Resources, the world’s newest and most audacious space company, is set to start prospecting near-Earth asteroids…

Planetary Resources is building its own spacecraft to mine asteroids for raw materials including platinum and water.

Planetary Resources will outline a plan to cut years and billions of dollars off current ideas of pursing mining in space by setting up a competition to have private space companies do the mining.

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The alien-looking images formations come from a variety of locations across the globe including the White Desert in Egypt, Monument Valley in the U.S., and the Chocolate Hills of Bohol Island in the Philippines.

The chances of finding life on Mars may be improved by looking in craters made by asteroid impacts, say Scottish researchers.

Derzeit rast ein Asteroid auf die Erde zu - er wird sie nach Berechnungen von Astronomen verfehlen. Doch immer wieder treffen Gesteinsbrocken aus dem All die Erde - rein statistisch ist ein globales Desaster überfällig. Von FOCUS-Redakteur Michael OdenwaldMehr zum ThemaSozialwissenschaftler erklärt hübsche Anhängsel - Die Frau als Accessoire im KonkurrenzkampfNordseeplattform „Elgin“ - „Total“ ...

EARTH had a near-miss on Sunday from a 150-foot asteroid that was detected only two weeks ago, it was revealed on Monday. The space rock, 2012 EG5, flew past earth closer than the moon, at a distance of just 143,000 miles. The asteroid has a diameter of around 150 feet - and would have exploded with the force of an atomic weapon had it hit our planet. Nothing is known about its likely ...

For all the creative destruction that the Internet has wrought over the last decade, there has been one constant: Google's remarkable dominance of the internet economy.

Spacecraft explorations reveal a layered, beat-up body

Scientists analysing the surface of a giant asteroid are puzzling over bright spots that represent some of the purest materials seen so far by a Nasa spacecraft.

Ein Asteroid wird die Erde im Februar 2013 nur knapp verfehlen: "2012 DA14" kommt nach Berechnungen der Nasa dichter an den Planeten heran als die Satelliten im geostationären Orbit. Auf der Oberfläche einschlagen wird der rund 45 Meter große Brocken aber nicht.

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Astronomen müssen möglichweise ihr Bild des Asteroiden Vesta ändern. War die Wissenschaft bis dato von einem staubtrockenen Gesteinsbrocken ausgegangen, so hat die Auswertung von Daten – u.a. des Weltraum-Teleskops "Hubble" – jetzt ergeben, dass es an den beiden Polen des Protoplaneten Wasser in Form von Eis unter der Oberfläche geben könnte.

AN asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- For 35 years, Zaida Franz has not been able to find her daughter, a girl who dreamed of becoming an astronomer and then disappeared without a trace. Now she at least has an address she can think about - out in space....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is sending back the most close-up images of the asteroid Vesta since it slipped into orbit around the giant space rock last summer....

In a real crisis, like say if an asteroid threatens to strike the planet, I want Tim Tebow as my leader. I don’t want Randy Edsall, with his faux-militaristic carping, or Bruce Boudreau, with his abrupt shifts from buddy talk to deafening profanity. “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another,” Tebow told his team solemnly last week, quoting Proverbs. If anyone else said that, the room...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ever wondered what the U.S. economy might look like should there be another Lehman Brothers-style bank collapse? Well, it would not be pretty.

Bruce Willis, everyone’s favourite (non-Bollywood) action hero, looked into the camera and began to say his last goodbyes to his daughter down on Earth. He was about to detonate the massive bomb that would blow the asteroid (and him) to pieces and save the world from a terrible end. I sat in front of the TV, clutching a packet of biscuits and weeping like a small child. I hadn’t seen the film...

Groß wie ein Flugzeugträger: In 320.000 Kilometern Entfernung hat ein Asteroid die Erde passiert. So nah war uns ein derartiger Himmelskörper seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A big asteroid made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years on Tuesday, but there was never a chance of a crash landing as it zipped past our planet, Nasa said. Astronomers around the world aimed their telescopes to catch a glimpse of the 2005 YU55… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Kelly Evans writes that the Continent's debt crisis seems to pose about as much threat to the U.S. as the giant asteroid that zoomed by this week. But the impact would be felt in activity far beyond Europe's shores.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a video compiled from radar images to show the asteroid that zipped past the Earth at a distance of ...

Ein etwa 400 Meter großer Asteroid ist nahe an der Erde vorbeigeflogen. Kurz nach Mitternacht passierte er unseren Planeten innerhalb der Mondbahn mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 50.000 Kilometer pro Stunde. Eine Kollision hatten Wissenschaftler der NASA bereits zuvor ausgeschlossen.

A black asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zoomed past Earth on Tuesday, delighting astronomers who trained telescopes on the ancient body in hopes of learning more about its composition and origin.

AN asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is set to make a close but harmless swing by Earth, and it's coming by sometime this morning.

An asteroid 1,200 feet wide will zip past Earth at a distance closer than the moon but poses no danger of hitting the planet, NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

MONSTER asteroid more than quarter of a KILOMETRE wide will skim past Earth

A 400-metre-wide asteroid will on Tuesday fly past earth, closer to it than the moon's orbit.

Scientists see no chance of impact with Earth or moon as the space rock sails about 323,469km from the planet.

A huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon on Tuesday, giving scientists a rare chance for study without having to go through the time and expense of launching a probe, officials said

With a large asteroid moseying into Earth's neighborhood on Nov. 8, coming closer than the moon, we asked NASA whether a probe landing on the ...

Millions of miles from Earth, two astronauts hover weightlessly next to a giant space rock, selecting pebbles for scientific research. The spaceship where they'll sleep floats just overhead. Beyond it, barely visible in the sky, is a glittering speck. It's Earth.