Tag: "neo"
Asteroid 2012 DA14: In Line For a Rim Shot
Duck! Here comes asteroid 2012 DA14, grazing close to where you live on February 15th!
Post on Feb 15, 2013 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Spitzer Samples an Assortment of Asteroids
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that asteroids may have more variety than once imagined.
Post on Sep 10, 2010 by Ben Burress
Asteroid Apophis–Hit or Miss?
Friday the 13th, April, 2029: If you're superstitious, this might not be a good day to schedule a near-Earth asteroid encounter.
Post on Mar 25, 2009 by Ben Burress
Producer's Notes: Asteroid Hunters
On March 3rd, 2009 at 1:40PM GMT, just a mere month after we’d finished the Asteroid Hunters segment, an asteroid of up to 165 feet in diameter snuck up on us, coming within approximately 37,000 miles from a direct impact with Earth.
Post on Mar 23, 2009 by Amy Miller
Asteroid 2008 TC3 Strikes Earth!
News Flash! Asteroid 2008 TC3, on a collision trajectory with Earth, made a meteoric atmospheric entry into the skies above Sudan, Central Africa Tuesday morning, October 7th (local time-about 7:46 PM PDT). Entering the atmosphere at a speed of 12.8 kilometers per second, it exploded with the force of a low-level nuclear bomb…
Post on Oct 09, 2008 by Ben Burress
The Asteroid Hunters
On July 14th, 2008, an almost Hollywood-like drama took place in space nearby: a "double," or binary, asteroid whizzed past Earth, grazing by at a distance of only 1.4 million miles. One of the rocks is over 200 meters across, the other a whopping 600 meters– about half the size of Half Dome in Yosemite!
Post on Jul 18, 2008 by Ben Burress
