... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
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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