The idea of mining nearby asteroids for resources we could use on Earth is fast becoming a possibility—and the asteroid set to buzz Earth on on February 15th could be worth up to $195 billion. If we could catch it. More »
YU55 is in the vicinity now, and will pass within the Moon's orbit tomorrow. NASA sent me a pretty crappy image but I fixed it up for you:
The image was taken on Nov. 7 at 11:45 a.m. PST (2:45 p.m. EST/1945 UTC), when the asteroid was approximately 860,000 miles (1.38 million kilometers)...
Trying to find an older book i read in the 70's. Had a picture of a spaceship on the front and was about asteroid mining. Any ideas on what it may have been?
NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) on Thurs., Sept. 29, to reveal near-Earth asteroid findings and implications for future research. The briefing will take place at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, launched in...
3D Image of Vesta's Equatorial Region
This anaglyph image of Vesta's equator was put together from two clear filter images, taken on July 24, 2011 by the framing camera instrument aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The anaglyph image shows hills, troughs, ridges and steep craters. The framing...
PASADENA, Calif. - Astronomers studying observations taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission have discovered the first known "Trojan" asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth.
Trojans are asteroids that share an orbit with a planet near stable points in front of...
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A huge scar formed on Jupiter in July of 2009. It's shown here near the "bottom" of the planet:
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At a time when mining asteroids has become feasible, astronauts have connected a line between their 3500-kg space tug and a 6200-kg asteroid. Using their ship's engine, they pull on the asteroid with a force of 490 N. Initially the tug and the asteroid are at rest, 450 m apart. How much time...
If it's travelling at 604ms^-1 then due to newtons second law should hit earth at the same speed of 604ms^-1. newtons second law states that an object will move at a constant verlocity or remain at rest unless an outside force acts upon it.