April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
...orbit where a greater conjunction risk exists, and where meteor strikes are apparently a significant cause of anomalies. ...the true nature of on-orbit anomalies by attributing them to meteor strikes rather than reporting hardware failure as the cause. ...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
...discussion. All of that began to change when the Chelyabinsk meteor came out of seemingly nowhere back in 2013, reminding ... injured seriously enough to seek medical assistance when the Chelyabinsk meteor struck. At the time, some pointed out that it ...
27 August 2015
No, an asteroid isn’t about to strike Puerto Rico in September, NASA says
... – that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth.” Meteor impacts, meanwhile, can sometimes be unexpected. This is how we wound up with the Chelyabinsk meteor debacle, for example. Of course, the rumours are claiming that the...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
... fire on an exploration craft. Some of the other planned experiments are: the meteor-tracking experiment (first space-based observations of meteors entering Earth's atmosphere); the Strata-I experiment (exploring regolith properties in microgravity...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
A the end of the last century it was conclusively shown that a collision with an asteroid or a comet could lead to a partial or even total destruction of our planet’s biosphere. Collisions in space of various near- Earth objects (or NEOs) are ...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... moving objects and mapping the trajectories of asteroids to see if any could have our name on them. A recurrence of Meteor Crater, Arizona, is what the B612 Foundation hopes to avoid. “We’ve been given a gift, and the gift is that...
