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Wednesday
May 09 2012
16:45 UTC

Asteroid, mine

... My latest is about asteroid mining — the company Planetary Resources announced recently they have big plans to Go Where No Mine Has Gone before, and I give it the once over. As I said when I wrote about this earlier, I'm enthusiastic about it, but I'd like to see details. But I'll say that the first few steps the company wants to take make a great deal of sense to me. And hey

Posted by Bad Astronomy

Tuesday
May 08 2012
20:25 UTC

The Surface of an Asteroid

... orbiting the 330-mile-wide asteroid Vesta. I stitched two images together (using a third for gap fill-in) that were originally acquired by Dawn's framing camera in October 2011 and released last week. This shows

Posted by Lights in the Dark

Tuesday
May 08 2012
15:25 UTC

The Bright and Dark Side of Vesta's Craters

... in orbit around the asteroid Vesta. (...)Read the rest of The Bright and Dark Side of Vesta's Craters (322 words) Â Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No

Posted by Universe Today

Wednesday
May 02 2012
12:15 UTC

Map and measure a million Moon craters! | Bad Astronomy …

... I give talks about asteroid impacts quite often, and sometimes people ask me why we should worry about them. I reply, "Go outside and look at the Moon. The.

Posted by My Astronomy Blog

Monday
Apr 16 2012
16:56 UTC

German school students hunt for unknown asteroids

It's March 15th 2012, the official start date of the fourth Pan-STARRS Asteroid Search Campaign of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration. Students from 40 schools – most of them from the United States and Germany, but also from Brazil, Bulgaria, England, India, Poland, and Taiwan – are ready to go. During the last few weeks,

Posted by PS1SC Blog

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