05 March 2018
Asteroid tracking program adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners
... comparison and collaboration and enable researchers worldwide to build applications that make use of the data in the asteroid map. As ADAM will be cloud-based, it will enable the astrodynamics algorithms to be run at an extremely large scale, with...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... Redirection Test (DART) project. DART’s primary objective is to demonstrate the effect a kinetic impact would have on a small asteroid. To achieve this, DART will deliberately smash itself into a 160 metre moonlet informally called ‘Didymoon,’ that...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
...to reduce the fraction of impacting mass by factor of 1,000 or more (99.9 percent of the mass misses Earth). For a larger asteroid, more time is needed, say the team. Dispersal velocities could still be reduced by an order of magnitude and 99 percent...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... which results in an upper and lower diameter range for the asteroid. If this in indeed the case, then Tricarico states that ... timely detection. While alerting the Earth of an impending asteroid impact is top priority, NEAs also represent a target ...
29 April 2019
Preparing for an asteroid impact - test underway now!
...1 in 100. Although it is not yet clear where the asteroid might hit, experts will need to account for as many eventualities...enough warning, can we take the steps needed to prevent an asteroid strike altogether, or to minimise the damage it does on the...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
...pass close to our planet, they were chosen as targets to test whether a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a chosen asteroid, bump into it – in Dimorphos’ case, DART will hit the moonlet at speeds of approximately 6.6 kilometres per second – and...
