... Most near-Earth Asteroids тАФ NEAs for short тАФ have very eccentric, or egg-shaped, orbits that take the asteroid right through the inner solar system. ...
... asteroid 2007 UR2 hadn't been observed in over 2 years, which means that predicting ... asteroid which has an extremely unusual horseshoe orbit associated with the planet ...
... Horner and Wyn Evans , at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and Mark Bailey and David Asher , at the Armagh Observatory, have provided new insight into the links between comets and asteroids in the outer solar system and their dynamical evolution ...
... Asteroid Impact Animations. ... about a couple of big movies about asteroids which are heading towards the cinemas ... to try and produce a more accurate image of what an asteroid impact might look like ...
... The asteroid 2000 PH5 was discovered four years ago, on 3 August 2000, by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project at the White Sands Missile Range in Socorro, New Mexico, USA. ...
... Using my little fractal asteroid generator I thought it would be fun to vbuild a hypothtical asteroid and see what kind of rotational lightcurves it would produce. ...
... Asteroids, comets (and more) with the Faulkes Telescopes. ... Various FT news articles on comets and asteroids . ... The near-Earth asteroid 2009 QC imaged on 2009 August 24th by Juliet Griffin and ...
... Asteroid 2012 DA14 to Buzz the Earth. ... discovered Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will make a close pass by the ... The asteroid will come within about 34,000 km (21,000 miles) of the centre of our ...
... Finally, we have serendipitously discovered that spinel-rich asteroid (599)Luisa, located very close to the Watsonia family, is a member of the rare class of Barbarian asteroids. ...