London: In a space mission straight from the movie "Armageddon", astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid, explore it for minerals and even destroy the object if it threatens the Earth. NASA wants humans to make contact with an asteroid up to three million miles away by the end of the next decade, something far beyond the scope of Earth-Moon space flight in 1969. Travelling at around 80,000...
04:58 PM, May 13, 2012
London: A new asteroid, identified by NASA, could potentially hit the earth on February 5, 2040, even though it is much smaller than the one - nine miles across - which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The UN Action Team on near-Earth objects, which has taken note of the 460-ft asteroid, placed the odds of its hitting the earth at one-in-625, though that could change nearer the...
03:53 AM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: A bus-sized newly discovered asteroid on Friday came extremely close to the Earth, coming much nearer than the Moon, space scientists said. However, the space rock posed no danger of impacting the Earth. "The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 59,044 km of Earth at about 9 pm," Planetary Society of India Director N Raghunandan Kumar said. The moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 386,000 km....
08:57 AM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: A bus-sized newly discovered asteroid on Friday came extremely close to the Earth, coming much nearer than the Moon, space scientists said. However, the space rock posed no danger of impacting the Earth. "The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 59,044 km of Earth at about 9 pm," Planetary Society of India Director N Raghunandan Kumar said. The moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 386,000 km....
09:37 PM, Jan 27, 2012
This image made from radar data taken in April 2010 by the Arecibo Radar Telescope in Puerto Rico and provided by NASA/Cornell/Arecibo shows asteroid 2005 YU55. The asteroid, bigger than an aircraft carrier, will dart between the Earth and moon Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - the closest encounter by such a huge rock in 35 years. But scientists say not to worry. It won't hit. (AP Photo/NASA/Cornell/Arecibo) ...
07:11 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Cape Canaveral: A huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon on Wednesday morning, giving scientists a rare chance for study without having to go through the time and expense of launching a probe, officials said. Earth's close encounter with Asteroid 2005 YU 55 will occur at 8:28 AM IST on Wednesday November 8 (6:28 PM EST Tuesday), as the space rock sails about 201,000 miles from the...
07:47 AM, Nov 08, 2011
Los Angeles: A latest NASA survey on Thursday detected 93 per cent of the largest near-Earth asteroids, which reduced the risk of an unwarranted impact with Earth. The findings indicated that there were significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought, roughly about 19,500. Astronomers, however, said that more research was needed to analyse the asteroids, as they got closer to earth. The space agency said on...
09:05 AM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: A bunch of Indian students have left their mark on the Solar System as they have tracked down some extremely rare asteroids. The kids might look like average teenagers. But the truth is, they're special agents on a mission to Space. The students of Bal Bharti School were among hundreds across India trying to detect asteroids in our Solar System. They were trained by an Indian team of...
10:17 AM, Sep 02, 2011
New Delhi: Two Delhi students have made history by discovering a new asteroid as part of a unique astronomy project connected to US space agency NASA. The duo will also get an opportunity to name the asteroid. Vaibhav Sapra and Sharanjeet Singh, Class 12 students of Bal Bharati Public School in Pitampura, discovered a main belt asteroid (2011 QM14) this month as part of the All India Asteroid Search Campaign...
05:28 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Beijing: A group of Chinese scientists have proposed a method to prevent the possible collision of Apophis - a 46-million-tonne asteroid - with the Earth in 2036. The asteroid - which is 270 metres in diameter - will approach Earth at a distance of 37,000-38,000 km in 2029. In 2036, Apophis may come back and collide with Earth April 13, 2036. According to scientists, the chance of a collision in...
12:00 PM, Aug 19, 2011
Los Angeles: Whew, that was close. An asteroid the size of a tour bus streaked harmlessly past Earth on Monday, passing within 7,600 miles. Discovered only last week, the relatively small space rock made a hairpin turn around the planet at about 10 a.m. PDT, sailing high over the southern Atlantic Ocean. In truth, there was never any doubt it would miss. But given the vastness of the universe, 7,600...
12:10 PM, Jun 28, 2011
It's going to be a close encounter as an asteroid as big as a bus is hurtling towards Earth, but it will have no deep impact as it's expected to burn up in the atmosphere. ...
09:05 AM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: A newly-discovered asteroid at least the size of a bus and orbiting around the sun, will pass in close proximity to the Earth on Monday. The asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) above Earth's surface at around 6:56 pm on Monday, Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators Director C B Devgun said. At closest approach, 2011 MD will pass in the day over...
08:56 AM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: A newly-discovered asteroid at least the size of a bus and orbiting around the sun, will pass in close proximity to the Earth on Monday. The asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometres above Earth's surface at around 6.56 pm on Monday, Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators Director C B Devgun said. At closest approach, 2011 MD will pass in the day over the southern...
01:29 PM, Jun 26, 2011
London: Now your car stereo will play whatever you desire from among millions of songs, just name the song. The Parrot Asteroid, which is also the first in-car music system that can download apps, was launched Wednesday at the 44th International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Using Google's Android mobile phone software, the device is due to go on sale within weeks. French manufacturer Parrot said it will cost...
10:56 AM, Jan 07, 2011
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