Tag Asteroids - results: 76
Russian scientists have created the asteroid and destroyed it with laser
we All remember the movie "Armageddon" with Bruce Willis in the lead role, where a group of people heroically saved Earth from destruction by destroying threatening her with a meteorite. Since then (and before) many are thinking: ...
Scientists explained the strange shape of the "alien" asteroid Moimoi
last year, the offender interstellar space Moimoi passed through the inner Solar system. Initially it was assumed that a comet, then an asteroid, and then the alien ship — this visitor had properties that are unusual for typical s...
Big asteroid killed the dinosaurs. And what of the smaller asteroid?
this month, close to the Ground flew a relatively small asteroid, which was discovered, within six days before. Sounds scary, but the fact is that a possible collision of this object with the Earth — an extremely unlikely event. E...
To make the planet a cleaner, you need to begin to develop the asteroids
the Extraction of useful materials on asteroids may seem like something out of the ordinary, but in fact companies and even some governments are already seriously considering this possibility. Why not: compared to the enormous tec...
In orbit a satellite with an experimental technology for finding water in space
the Company Planetary Resources, which attracted the attention of Google co-founder Larry page for his idea of mining in space so much that he decided to become one of its main investors, took another step towards the main objecti...
The Arecibo Observatory is considered a potentially hazardous asteroid Phaeton
After a few months of downtime in connection with the liquidation of consequences of hurricane "Maria" the main radio telescope of the Arecibo Observatory and one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world returned to its ...
Omwamwi is not a space ship, but he could be "passengers"
last Wednesday, scientists project a Breakthrough Listen directed gaze parabolic radio telescope green Bank National radio astronomy Observatory in the direction Omwamwi — the mysterious oblong space object, in fact the firs...
recently, in October, our Solar system for the first time visited interstellar space object. The body, dubbed Omului (from Hawaiian means "messenger"), attracted the attention of astronomers and space enthusiasts from around the w...
"And Baba Yaga is against": Russia wants to ban the extraction of resources in space
Russia plans next year to submit for consideration in the UN a question on change "of the outer space Treaty" and the introduction at the legislative level a ban on the extraction of mineral resources on asteroids and the moon for...
We visited the asteroid "Florence" is so great that it has two satellites
who Visited us last week asteroid "Florence" passed our planet at a distance of 7 million kilometers. To Land this block is not a threat, but it is the big asteroid coming so close to our planet over the last one hundred years. ...
NASA will be able to check out their system of planetary security
Our Solar system is downright different space filled with cobblestones, wandering in space on different orbits and at different speeds. It would seem, anything especial – ordinary matter. But only as long as one of these stones do...
NASA and ESA will take the asteroid to RAM in 2024
you Probably didn't know about this, but June 30 is considered the world's "Day of the asteroids", in this day of eminent scientists trying to communicate to space agencies and governments of the threat posed by these mysterious h...
10 important NASA missions that we are looking forward to
National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) was established on 1 October 1958. It was the direct descendant of the "space race" period of the 20th century, when the United States and the Soviet Union essentially were comp...
What do the hunters for asteroids?
Sometimes people ask Carrie Nugent on the chances that the movie "Armageddon" in 1998 happens in real life, when scientists find that an asteroid the size of Texas is 18 days from hitting the surface of the Earth with all the cons...
a New study suggests that the greatest danger in case of falling of an asteroid to Earth will be to present not the fact of his collision with the surface. The greatest danger for all of us to imagine the shockwaves that the aster...
New end of the world scheduled for February 16 of this year
the Artistic representation of the asteroid «2016 WF9» do you Have plans on February 16? Because if it's something important, we would suggest to postpone the decision of these cases a couple of days earlier. Who knows, ...