25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... estimates, so around 900 ± 10 NEAs. The research, by Pasquale Tricarico, a senior scientist at PSI and a participating scientist on the Dawn mission for both Vesta and Ceres, also suggests that the albedo of asteroids studied to date, in the...
10 August 2016
Dellingr CubeSat Begins Environmental Testing
... particles, ionized by incoming solar radiation and magnetospheric particle precipitation. Named after the Norse god of dawn, Dellingr is barely bigger than a cereal box and is capable of carrying three payloads – a miniaturized mass spectrometer...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... of a comet as it nears the Sun. Discovered a month earlier, C/2016 U1 NEOWISE will be in the southeastern sky shortly before dawn as seen from the northern hemisphere during the first week of 2017 and according to Paul Chodas, manager...
17 April 2017
April 19th to be an exciting day for stargazers as an asteroid and a comet pass close to Earth
... by flying by that day at a distance of 175 million kilometres. Also known as the C/2011 L4, the comet is expected to be visible at dawn with binoculars. It was discovered in 2011 using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii and has a nucleus of about...
30 January 2018
Rare 'Super Blue Blood Moon' due tomorrow
If you are lucky enough to live in the U.S. West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii and if the skies are clear, then you will be treated to the best view of a rare super blue blood moon event, that will take place early tomorrow morning (Wednesday 31st ...
04 July 2018
Majority of asteroids come from a handful of ancient planets
... Eulalia. The names refer to the biggest object in the bunch, once of which got a visit from NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft in 2011 – Vesta. Those that can’t be placed into a family, the asteroid orphans as it were, are given...
