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Image showing the orbit of 2022 SF289 (green) at its closest approach to Earth (orbit in blue). Orbits of Venus and Mars are shown in orange and red, respectively.Joachim Moeyens/University of Washington/OpenSpace
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New Algorithm Ensnares Its First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

An asteroid discovery algorithm — designed to uncover near-Earth asteroids for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming 10-year survey of the night sky — has identified its first “potentially hazardous” […]

by SpaceRef July 31, 2023July 15, 2024
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Astronomers Want Your Help Hunting For Asteroids

by SpaceRef May 18, 2023July 15, 2024
This illustration depicts asteroid Phaethon being heated by the Sun. The asteroid’s surface gets so hot that sodium inside Phaethon’s rock likely vaporizes and vents into space, causing it to brighten like a comet and form a tail. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC
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Asteroid’s Comet-Like Tail Is Not Made of Dust, Solar Observatories Reveal

by SpaceRef April 25, 2023July 15, 2024
A University of Central Florida researcher will be using the newly constructed Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT) in the Canary Islands, Spain, to study metal-rich M-type asteroids.
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New Agreement Will Help Researchers Study Metal Worlds Of M-type Asteroids

by SpaceRef April 12, 2023July 15, 2024
This series of images, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows the evolution of the cloud of debris that was ejected when NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos
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Observing The Aftermath Of DART’s Asteroid Impact

by SpaceRef March 21, 2023July 15, 2024
2011 AG5
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NASA’s Planetary Radar Captures Detailed View of Oblong Asteroid

by SpaceRef February 17, 2023July 15, 2024
Consortium of the CHEOPS VHP BB project
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International consortium develops a crucial technology to ensure future deep space missions, asteroid deflection and mining

by SpaceRef February 16, 2023July 15, 2024
Impact
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A Small Asteroid Was Spotted Before Earth Impact

by SpaceRef February 13, 2023July 15, 2024
Asteroid
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Webb Space Telescope Detects An Extremely Small Main-Belt Asteroid

by SpaceRef February 6, 2023July 15, 2024
Samples of asteroid Ryugu
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Ryugu Samples Continue To Shed Light On Solar System History

by SpaceRef January 28, 2023July 15, 2024

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