Asteroid News Feed from SciGuru.com for latest discoveries, inventions and developments on asteroids http://www.sciguru.com http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3810/Asteroid-Impact-in-2182?/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:55:47 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3810 Scientists are reporting that a 560-meter diameter asteroid could hit the Earth in the year 2182. "The total impact probability of asteroid '(101955) http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797/Caltech-Astronomer-Finds-Planets-in-Unusually-Intimate-Dance-around-Dying-Star-/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:18:32 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797 Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming iso http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3756/Newly-discovered-asteroid-named-for-Nobel-laureate-Elie-Wiesel/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:48:08 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3756 Last May, a minor planet-also known as an asteroid-discovered by an amateur astronomer was officially named "Eliewiesel" in honor of 1986 Nobel Peace http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3684/Rosetta-triumphs-at-asteroid-Lutetia/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:11:52 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3684 Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA's Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid s http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3676/Heavy-Metal-Rock-Set-to-Take-the-Stage/ Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:44:14 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3676 On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with NASA instruments aboard, wi http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3428/Mysterious-Flash-on-Jupiter-Left-No-Debris-Cloud/ Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:21:29 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3428 Detailed observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. It came from a giant me http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3407/Rosetta's-blind-date-with-asteroid-Lutetia/ Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:40:18 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3407 ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta is heading for a blind date with asteroid Lutetia. Rosetta does not yet know what Lutetia looks like but beautiful or other http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3395/Hayabusa-Asteroid-Mission-Comes-Home/ Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:48:13 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3395 The Hayabusa capsule and bus entered the Earth's atmosphere over Woomera, Australia, on June 13 at 11:21 p.m. local time. From the perspective of NASA http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3390/NASA-Helps-in-Upcoming-Asteroid-Mission-Homecoming/ Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:06:02 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3390 The space and astronomy worlds have June 13 circled on the calendar. That's when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) expects the sample retu http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3310/NASA's-Dawn-Spacecraft-Fires-Past-Record-for-Speed-Change/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:20:58 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3310 Deep in the heart of the asteroid belt, on its way to the first of the belt's two most massive inhabitants, NASA's ion-propelled Dawn spacecraft has e http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3274/Hubble-Images-Suggest-Rogue-Asteroid-Smacked-Jupiter/ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:10:57 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3274 Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3189/Small-Near-Earth-Object-Probably-a-Rocket-Part/ Fri, 28 May 2010 15:33:30 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3189 Scientists at NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have determined that a small object tha http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2783/A-Cluster-and-a-Sea-of-Galaxies/ Wed, 05 May 2010 07:39:41 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2783 A new wide-field image released today by ESO displays many thousands of distant galaxies, and more particularly a large group belonging to the massive http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2731/Arecibo-telescope-tracks-'potentially-dangerous'-asteroid-within-1.5-million-miles-of-Earth/ Sat, 01 May 2010 05:21:57 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2731 A near-Earth asteroid named 2005 YU55 - on the list of potentially dangerous asteroids - was observed by the Arecibo telescope April 19 as it passed a http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2703/Scientists-Say-Ice-Lurks-in-Asteroid's-Cold-Heart/ Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:20:16 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2703 Scientists using a NASA funded telescope have detected water-ice and carbon-based organic compounds on the surface of an asteroid. The cold hard facts http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2684/Asteroid-Ice-May-Be-'Living-Fossil'-With-Clues-to-Oceans'-Origins/ Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:35:00 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2684 The first-ever discovery of ice and organic molecules on an asteroid may hold clues to the origins of Earth's oceans and life 4 billion years ago. Uni http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2648/Where-comets-emit-dust/ Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:37:03 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2648 Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research identify the active regions on the surface of comets. Studying comets can be quite http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2566/Testing-Future-Engine-Technology-is-a-Work-of-Art/ Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:14:20 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2566 An engine nozzle turns a dramatic array of colors during a recent hot-fire test at NASA's White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces, N.M. A team of en http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2524/President-Outlines-Exploration-Goals,-Promise-for-NASA/ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:06:14 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2524 Astronauts will soar spaceward in commercial spacecraft while NASA develops technology so humans can venture to Mars and out into the solar system, Pr http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2463/Watery,-rocky-planets-may-be-common-in-the-Milky-Way/ Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:49:09 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/2463 'Polluted' stars may provide evidence of rocky planets, according to team of Leicester astronomers. An international team of astronomers have discover