News tagged with asteroid belt
Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For Good
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt today, Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there.
Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.
Study of first high-resolution images of Pallas confirms asteroid is actually a protoplanet
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Britney E. Schmidt, a UCLA doctoral student in the department of Earth and space sciences, wasn't sure what she'd glean from images of the asteroid Pallas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
Researchers make rare meteorite find using new camera network in Australian desert
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered an unusual kind of meteorite in the Western Australian desert and have uncovered where in the Solar System it came from, in a very rare finding published today ...
Craters on Vesta and Ceres Could Hold Key to Jupiter's Age
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Crater patterns on Vesta and Ceres could help pinpoint when Jupiter began to form during the evolution of the early solar system.
Spacecraft Talk Continued During JPL Wildfire Threat
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2009 |
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As the flames of the raging brush fire dubbed the Station Fire threatened the northern edge of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Saturday, Aug. 29, the managers of NASA's Deep Space Network prepared for ...
Dawn Finishes Mars Phase
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With Mars disappearing in its metaphorical rearview mirror, NASA's Dawn spacecraft's next stop is the asteroid belt and the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn got as close as 549 kilometers (341 miles) ...
Scientists Find Asteroids Are Missing, and Possibly Why
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The patterns of missing asteroids are like the footprints of wandering giant planets preserved in the asteroid belt.
NASA Spacecraft Falling For Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Launched in September of 2007, and propelled by any one of a trio of hyper-efficient ion engines, NASA's Dawn spacecraft passed the orbit of Mars last summer. At that time, the asteroid belt ...
Solar System's Young Twin Has Two Asteroid Belts
Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin ...
MIT solves puzzle of meteorite-asteroid link: New analysis makes it possible to 'know our enemy'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit ...
