A potentially hazardous asteroid called 7482 (1994 PC1) will pass close enough to Earth today that you’ll be able to see it with a small telescope. The asteroid is more than half a mile wide, or about the height of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai. Thankfully, it will pas...
Yesterday, NASA launched its OSIRIS-REx mission to visit asteroid Bennu. Once there, its spacecraft will take a sample of the asteroid and return the material to Earth. In this edition of Mobile Astronomy, we'll focus on asteroids, and how you can see one in a backyard telescope with the...
A team of three researchers even believes to have discovered the identity of the asteroid itself. Using mathematical models, the group narrowed the field to the Baptistina cluster, a group of asteroids created by a large impact beyond the orbit of Mars [source: Sky & Telescope]. According to...
Asteroid 951 Gaspra Photo courtesy NASA Asteroids Like the outer planets, asteroids are difficult to see in small telescopes. Because they are so small, they appear in a telescope as points of light, like stars. Typically, to locate an asteroid, you find its position from a chart and then...
Boomerang:Fly in an oval around the subject, climbing in height while flying away and descending while returning to the subject Asteroid:Flies back and up while taking photos, resulting in a Tiny Planet panorama at the highest point and a video of the descent back ...
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While most meteor showers come to be from comet fragments, the body responsible for producing the Quadrantids is asteroid 2003 EH1, which astronomers sometimes call a "rock comet." As the name of the asteroid implies, it was found very recently — in 2003 — by astronomer Peter Jenniskens,...
Asteroid entityYou're going to set up your entities as modules, so the first thing to do is create a file called asteroid.js within the lib/game/entities folder. Open up the file and add the following code to set up the entity module:...
I Want Apple to Bring This MacBook Pro Feature to the Air Commentary: The M4 MacBook Air has all the power and ports I need. But I could use one Pro feature that's still not an option for Apple's thin-and-light laptop. By Matt Elliott Siri's Update Is Pause...
Asteroid 951 Gaspra Photo courtesy NASA Asteroids Like the outer planets, asteroids are difficult to see in small telescopes. Because they are so small, they appear in a telescope as points of light, like stars. Typically, to locate an asteroid, you find its position from a chart and then...