About 18 years ago, a ground-breaking computer study revealed that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, plays an important role in protecting Earth from comets in the solar system. When the study was recently revisited, astronomers found that the issue is considerably more complex.
Apparently, the gas g... |
16 March 2012
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Tomorrow will mark the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which was the first man-made vehicle to fly through the Inner Asteroid Belt (IAB). The probe took off on March 2, 1972, and endured in space for decades.
The spacecraft is the first interplanetary mission that was sent to Jupiter, a... |
1 March 2012
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Scientists with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, announce that the Dawn space probe has been reawaken again, after six months of hibernation. The reason for this is that the spacecraft is approaching its first target, Vesta, the largest known asteroid in the solar system.The explorer ... |
22 March 2011
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Recent observations conducted on a large asteroid revealed that the space body may not be a barren rock after all, but rather a dormant comet of some kind, that is only now beginning to come back to life. Astronomers found 596 Scheila, the object in question, more than 100 years ago, and have always been convinced th... |
5 January 2011
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For decades, astronomers have had problems with explaining the very structure of the solar system, as in figuring out why is it that planets and asteroid belts within are arranged the way they are. A new theory now explains the structure of the solar neighborhood with great elegance.When looking at our solar system f... |
10 December 2010
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Today, November 14, the NASA Dawn spacecraft entered the inner asteroid belt of our solar system for the last time. The probe is scheduled to visit the dwarf planet Ceres, and also the large asteroid Vesta, and to collect scientific readings on as many of the objects' properties as possible. The asteroid belt li... |
14 November 2009
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The area of our solar system between Mars and Jupiter is known for its many asteroids, and for harboring some of the most peculiar planetary formations, such as the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta, all targets of NASA's New Dawn mission. However, back in 1996, astronomers observed a very weird object i... |
5 August 2009
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