18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
..., that the visitor is actually not that dissimilar from comets already found in our solar backyard. While some scientists ponder...per second for whatever was flying to liaise with the comet. The software shows that if a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... instrument detects the composition and energies of escaping ions moving outward, telling us what the Mars counterpart to a comet tail consists of, and where the material goes. Several other instruments, including a magnetometer, solar wind analysers...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
... is necessary to help prevent and manage asteroid, comet and space debris-related emergencies. The goal of ...a multi-purpose software package for the study of minor planets and comets // Papers of the Institute of Applied Astronomy. 2010. No 21. ...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... result from orbital dynamics processes in the ancient past. The story of our origins is written in the bodies of comets and asteroids and in the impact craters they have left on rocky bodies of the Solar System. If we could...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... of Ryugu also drew discussion. Rather than the potato-shape of asteroid Itokawa or the rubber duck profile of Comet 67P, Ryugu seemed to be shaped as a diamond. Artist’s impression of Hayabusa2 at Ryugu. Diamond shapes are usually created by fast...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... nitrogen on Mars could be to re-direct nitrogen-rich comets, causing them to collide with Mars. The artist’s impression below...conceivably replenish the N2 on Mars by re-directing nitrogen-rich comets or asteroids and causing them to collide with Mars. But...
