October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
.... The movie comes a few years after Scott’s other sci-fi masterpiece, Alien. He develops, in Blade Runner, a similar neo-noir atmosphere, albeit this time set in a decaying city rather than on a spacecraft. This particular view of the...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... in one’s audience. What’s the most powerful museum exhibit you’ve ever visited? Perhaps a detailed neo-classical painting, a stunning natural artefact, a performance piece, or a contemporary interactive installation? Whichever it is there’s a good...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... out of seemingly nowhere back in 2013, reminding the world of the destructive power potential of near earth objects (NEOs) that sometimes find their way into our atmosphere. As former NASA Astronaut Ed Lu wrote in ROOM this month...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... rapid-reaction phase should include reserve services: • a service for predicting the likely area of impact of the NEO and the consequences of a collision; • a regional defence service based on aerospace defence. The space observation platform would...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... after the WISE astrophysics mission ended) is the only infrared NEO survey mission in operation. NEOWISE is a great proof of ...rocky bodies, both in the asteroid belt and in the NEO population, by using the meteorite classification scheme. As a result...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... US Minor Planet Center and the UN-sanctioned International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), but it is inadequate, as is the so-called NEO Shield programme. The search process is currently designed to find asteroids that are 140 m across, but we know...
