Tuesday, 1 August 2023 – 10:01 WIB LIVE Techno – In October 2020, the NASA (Aviation and Space Agency) OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approached the asteroid Bennu. The probe has been orbiting its target for nearly two years, lowering the robotic arm and scooping up about 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms) of rocky and dusty material from the … Read more
On September 24 of this year, fragments of the asteroid Bennu are scheduled to arrive in the Utah desert, United States. A NASA conducted a trial in mid-July with the OSIRIS-Rex mission team to determine how they will be collected. The space agency defines this as “the most realistic essay to date”, as it took … Read more
Thursday, 20 July 2023 – 11:10 WIB LIVE Techno – An asteroid as tall as a 20-storey building sailed close to Earth last week. The space object hurtled past the planet roughly a quarter of the distance between Earth and the Moon and astronomers didn’t notice it until two days later. Asteroid 2023 NT1 passed … Read more
Jakarta – Recently two scientists from Natural History Museum England was given an unusual honour. How could they not, both of them ‘earned’ an asteroid with their respective names. Quoted from the official website, these two scientists are Dr. Helena Bates with the asteroid 28994 Helenabates and Dr. Ashley King with the asteroid 31551 Ashleyking. … Read more
A massive asteroid will pass by the Earth on Wednesday. According to astronomers, it can measure up to 310 meters in diameter. Moreover, it is approaching our planet at breakneck speed. Asteroid 2023 HO6 was discovered by astronomers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) this year, as the name suggests. The object will … Read more
Asteroids have long been a topic of fascination and concern for scientists and astronomers. The impact of an asteroid can have devastating consequences for life on Earth, as evidenced by the extinction of the dinosaurs. A recent article from Jakarta explores the reasons behind the asteroid’s ability to wipe out the dinosaurs and whether a … Read more
INDONESIANS – Haumea is a dwarf planet that inhabits the solar system, its existence in the solitude of the Kuiper Belt. It has a potato-like shape with a shaft at its shortest part, and Haumea is also surrounded by two tiny moons. Planet Haumea has a whitish blue color, with a unique shape. This form … Read more
such activities Get the attention of schools and the general public. More than 335 Thai names for the exoplanet GJ3470b have been proposed. These names were selected by a panel of experts. And open to the general public to vote for a Thai name in the final round Names with the highest number of votes … Read more
JAKARTA – Recently astronomers realized there was a almost moon or the false moon that has followed the earth around the sun since 100 BC. The celestial body is named 2023 FW13, approximately 14 million kilometers from Earth. It was first discovered last March using the famous Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii. Scientists first saw the … Read more
Tuesday, 6 June 2023 – 13:06 WIB LIVE Techno – A group of astronomers discovered a ‘quasi-moon’ or false moon – an asteroid that orbits Earth but is actually gravitationally bound by the Sun. This thing is called 2023 FW13 and was spotted recently, causing quite a stir among space enthusiasts. Experts used the Pan-STARRS … Read more