asteroids
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NASA Is Going To Harpoon An Asteroid, Unless They Lasso It

We’re going to put someone on an asteroid by 2025. Crazy. But the gravity on asteroids is so weak that we won’t stick to it. NASA plans to harpoon an asteroid like a giant space-whale. Now that’s my kinda crazy!

September 15, 2011
Science

What Just Streaked Across The Sky In The Southwest US?

Reports are flooding into Twitter about a large meteor spotted in Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. No videos or pictures yet, but speculation is running rampant about what exactly fell from the sky.

September 1, 2011
Science

Chinese Scientists Want To Lasso An Asteroid

Everybody knows the best method of dealing with dangerous asteroids — it’s called Bruce Willis. But what if said asteroid wasn’t on a collision course with us and we wanted to study, rather than explode, it? A team of Chinese researchers may have the solution.

August 17, 2011
Science

Scientists Planning Real-Life Armageddon Mission

In the classic masterpiece, Armageddon, by auteur Michael Bay, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck were epically sent into space to blow up an asteroid headed straight for Earth. Now in real life, scientists want to try and do the same thing.

July 19, 2011
Science

First Image Of Asteroid Vesta Captured From Its Orbit

At 531km in diameter, Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt. On Friday 15, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft entered its orbit firing its ion thruster to reduce its speed. Then it captured this image.

February 28, 2011
Gaming

"Geekpaper"

Love it. Clean, simple and perfect for the game room in my mythical mansion.

November 17, 2010
Science

Hayabusa Probe Successfully Brings Home Asteroid Dust

Astronomers and space geeks the world over have been waiting to hear confirmation from JAXA (the Japanese space agency) that the troubled Hayabusa mission did indeed bring back samples of asteroid dust. Today they got it.

October 23, 2010
Science

The Asteroids Closest To Killing Us, Visualised

You can call them “near Earth objects” if you want to. I’ll stick with “asteroids hellbent on obliterating our planet and all we hold dear”. Here’s the line-up of the space rocks closest to killing us, and where they are.

October 14, 2010
Science

Forget Tsunamis: Asteroids Will Really Kill Us With UV Rays

If a medium-sized asteroid lands in the ocean, tsunamis won’t be the only worry. Water vapour and sea salt thrown up by the impact could damage the ozone layer, leading to record levels of ultraviolet radiation that could threaten humanity.

September 30, 2010
Science

New 1.4-Gigapixel Asteroid Hunter Finds Object Headed For Earth

The Pan-STARRS, a new 1.4-gigapixel telescope built to spot asteroids, has found a potentially dangerous asteroid headed for Earth. Luckily, we don’t have to worry just yet. It won’t hit us ’til 2098.

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