Asteroid simulator for before the big one hits | FlowingData
Knowing the impact of an asteroid falling in your city might not seem immediately relevant, but if there’s one headed toward Earth and NASA is unable to knock it off course with one of their rockets, you will definitely want to know what will happen and prepare accordingly.
Astronomers spot an incoming small asteroid — and make a big breakthrough
The 2022 WJ1 was pretty small, only about one meter wide, and posed no actual threat to anyone or anything on the ground. But the planetary defense network is designed to catch much bigger potential threats.
The Chelyabinsk meteor was 20 times the size of 2022 WJ1 and, therefore, would have been much easier to see if astronomers had the same resources in place as they do now. Walking through how 2022 WJ1 was tracked helps illuminate how much planetary detection has improved.
NASA's Lucy asteroid-scouting mission resumes work on solar arrays | Space
The team behind NASA's Lucy asteroid mission is resuming work with the spacecraft to fully deploy and latch its second solar array after a recent successful Earth flyby.
The team has also resumed trying to complete the deployment of its 24-feet-wide (7 meters) solar arrays, as one of the pair did not fully unfold and latch in the days following launch.
15-ton meteorite has never-seen-before minerals; may provide clues to asteroid formation | Tech News
Some meteorites come from asteroids, others from comets and some may even originate in the moon itself and even other planets. Consider them "space rocks." Occasionally, these space rocks enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up. The part that survives and hits the Earth is called a meteorite.
"Whenever you find a new mineral, it means that the actual geological conditions, the chemistry of the rock, was different than what's been found before.
The Best of 2022 | The Planetary Society
With over 3,000 votes cast, the results are in for the Best of 2022! Here are your picks for the year's most amazing images, inspiring missions, exciting moments in exploration, and more!
In September, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission successfully altered the orbit of asteroid moonlet Dimorphos around its parent asteroid Didymos by smashing into it. This was the first ever test of an asteroid deflection technique.
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