Comet Pan-STARRS (C/2011 L4) passed inside the orbit of Mercury on March 10, 2013 reaching perihelion (its closet approach to the Sun). Now, it is visible object in the field of view of NASA's STEREO-B Heliospheric Imager.
An animation of Comet
Hank from SciShow gives us the skinny on three plans NASA scientists have come up with to save Earth from an asteroid impact. NEO/JPLIMPACTSource: SciShowFeatured image: Artist rendering asteroid (Credit:
A newly discovered Asteroid 2013 ET is making a close flyby, just days after another space rock made an even closer approach to our planet. The Catalina Sky Survey discovered Asteroid 2013 ET on March 3, 2013. and estimated its size at around 100 meters (64 meters…
Canada launched world’s first space telescope specifically designed to spot potentially hazardous asteroid and satellites. NEOSSat space satellite – Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite – was launched on Monday, February 25, 2013 atop an Indian rocket. It now
Comet Pan-STARRS has been brightening steadily for the past few months. By now Comet Pan-STARRS (C/2011 L4) became a naked-eye object while it makes its closest approach to the Sun, inside the orbit of Mercury. It is now closer to the Sun than Venus. At
A newly found asteroid, named 2013 EC will pass just inside the orbit of the Moon on March 4, 2013 at 07:35 UTC. Asteroid 2013 EC is big about 8-17 meters , just about the size of the space rock that exploded over Russia on February 15, 2013. It was
This exceptional sequence made by the Virtual Telescope, shows asteroid 2012 DA14, soon after its close approach at about 27 500 km above the Earth surface. At the imaging time, it was moving at the amazing rate of 2450"/min (0.7deg/min). The robotic telescope…
The following video shows asteroid 2012 DA14 simulated apparent motion, as visible from the Virtual telescope observing site, in Central Italy. Time is running 50x faster than reality. The field of view is of about 13×10 degress. It covers a time span from 18:30 …
Asteroid 2012 DA14 was discovered at the La Sagra Sky Survey, Spain on February 23, 2012, when it was about 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) away. Its flyby is the closest ever predicted Earth approach for an object this large (first estimates 45 m) which…
Due to the interest sparked by the upcoming flyby of 2012 DA14, Alex Parker of Minor Planet Center thought it would be helpful to place its flyby in a historic perspective. He put together a visualization of all the flybys of known asteroids in the 21st century in…
