Since 2006, the Nullarbor Desert in Western Australia has been the home of an experimental camera setup, designed and constructed by experts at the Imperial College London (ICL), in the UK, the Ondrejov Observatory, in the Czech Republic, and the Western Australian Museum. In a report published in the September 18th ... |
18 September 2009
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The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and includes some of the oldest rocky formations in our star system. According to a new paper released by experts at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), it may be that some of the oldest asteroids in there were not formed around the Sun, but in ... |
21 July 2009
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Recent observations of the asteroid belt around the inner planets have led astronomers to believe that the group of celestial bodies still bears the “scars” of its encounter with Jupiter and Saturn, which left their original orbit billions of years ago, when the solar system was first created. According t... |
26 February 2009
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Europe's comet chaser, the Rosetta spacecraft, was powered up last week in anticipation for the fly-by around asteroid 2867 Steins scheduled to take place on September 5th, 2008. Rosetta was originally designed and launched in order to approach and study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with which the spacec... |
7 July 2008
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The object now known as 2008 EB61 has been officially classified by the International Astronomical Union as the latest found asteroid. The discovery was made by Ryan Gallagher and Robbyn Kindle from the Forest Hill and North Richland Hills respectively, on March 9, after spotting a small feature of a unidentified spa... |
18 March 2008
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The Earth is continuously bombarded by space rocks and small cosmic bodies, probably swallowing up to a few tens of tons of matter each day. Most of these rocks go unnoticed because they burn high up in the atmosphere before reaching the surface of the planet, albeit from time to time larger meteorites and asteroids ... |
13 March 2008
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Astronomers got an unprecedented view at what is one of the most hard to see annual meteor showers, during the night of January 3rd, with the help of a Gulfstream V aircraft flying over the arctic regions of the Earth. The campaign had been initiated by NASA's Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute, it was ... |
7 February 2008
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Asteroids, like most of the bodies in the solar system, have stable orbits around the Sun, as all of them have their origins in the debris left behind by the planet formation process. They are spread through all over the solar system, but are mostly concentrated in an area of space called the asteroid belt, situated ... |
17 December 2007
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