... Chelyabinsk meteor came 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...
... that even NASA has stepped into the fray. NASA’s Near-Earth Object office has been prompted to speak to the press about how... while NASA is stressing that no “known object” is about to hit Earth. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that...
... the NSF/DOE Large Synoptic Survey Telescope); enhancing prediction of and preparedness for space hazards, notably Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and space weather; and harnessing the small satellite revolution. At present, it is too early to tell what...
... Crater in the US state of Arizona was 40 to 50 km in diameter. Shortly after confirmation of 2006 QV89, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced what everyone wanted to hear: the...
... radar astronomy. Arecibo is also home to a team that runs the Planetary Radar Project supported by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program in NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office through a grant awarded to UCF. The facility has endured...
... Overview”, AIAA SPACE 2014 Conference and Exposition, San Diego, CA, August 2014. 8 Yeomans, D., et al “Deflecting a Hazardous Near Earth Object”, presented at the 1st International Planetary Defense Conference, http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/pdc_paper...