Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered on August 7, 2024 by the system ATLAS (Earth Asteroid Impact Last Warning System), in which the University of Hawaii and the American space agency NASA participate in its work. The main task of this system is to detect so-called near-Earth objects and to warn in time about their impact, … Read more
This new view of the asteroid (or asteroids) that hit Chicxulub on the territory of the Yucatan Peninsula today in Mexico should provide a better understanding of the history of celestial bodies that hit the Earth. “We can now say that this asteroid first formed outside of Jupiter,” lead author Mario Fischer-Gödde told AFP study … Read more
Madrid. A total of fifteen active asteroids have been discovered in a review of 430 thousand images from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) of the Víctor M. Blanco telescope in Chile. Some extraordinary asteroids have “activity”: comet-like tails or envelopes of gas and dust. NASA’s Active Asteroids project had more than eight thousand volunteer astronomers … Read more
Scientists in America have developed a new tool to simulate the use of a nuclear device to change the path of catastrophic asteroids and prevent them from colliding with Earth. According to Planetary Science Journal, the new study provides an innovative way to model the spread of energy from a nuclear device on the surface … Read more
Written by Heba El-Sayed Saturday, November 4, 2023 11:00 PM NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on its way to orbit. Jupiter To study asteroids there, and recently during its flight it made a flyby of another small asteroid called Dinkenish. The spacecraft confirmed its flyby of the asteroid this week, but when it returned its images, … Read more
New coverage presented by Al-Youm Al-Saba TV, about 5 asteroids that are likely to hit Earth in the coming centuries, prompting space agencies around the world to closely monitor them to identify risks and avoid them in a timely manner. NASA says more than 100 tons of rocky particles hit Earth every day, but asteroids … Read more
I wrote – Hadeel Al-Banna Saturday, March 25, 2023 08:09 AM New coverage presented by Al-Youm Al-Saba TV, about 5 asteroids that are likely to hit Earth in the coming centuries, prompting space agencies around the world to closely monitor them to identify risks and avoid them in a timely manner. NASA says more than … Read more
During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites – including one of the largest ever discovered on that continent. The rare meteorite is about the size of a cantaloupe but weighs 7.7 kilograms. It is one of around 100 of that size or larger … Read more
It appears to us as a simple dot of light. This is how the asteroid appears in the photographs that in the early hours of this Friday, shortly after midnight, made a pass extremely close to the Earth. Astronomers never considered that this cosmic rock, from three to three to eight meters in diameter, was … Read more
The main purpose of the galaxy image is to fill in the gaps in Hubble’s observations of known galaxies located near our Milky Way. Dwarf galaxy UGC 7983 (file photo) A small asteroid appeared in the vicinity of dwarf galaxy UGC 7983 when it was photographed by Hubble Space Telescope. UGC 7983 is a small … Read more