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A slow explosion: The violent birth of the Geminid meteor shower
1 week, 5 days ago

A slow explosion: The violent birth of the Geminid meteor shower

BBC  

A slow explosion: The violent birth of the Geminid meteor shower Getty Images The Geminids are one of the astronomical highlights of the year, creating a spectacular show of shooting stars every December. Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF The asteroid 3200 Phaethon, shown here in a number of radar images, is thought to be the parent of the Geminid meteor shower Phaethon's orbit …

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How asteroids may have shaped evolution.
2 months ago

How asteroids may have shaped evolution.

Slate  

Like many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million years ago. The small, iron-rich rocks stayed in orbit for a time, but—as expressed by my favorite new piece of technical jargon—“deorbited” around 465 million years ago, some of them crashing down into Earth. It’s possible that the …

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Massive Asteroid 2024 MT1 heading towards earth at 65,000 Km/h, warns NASA
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Massive Asteroid 2024 MT1 heading towards earth at 65,000 Km/h, warns NASA

India TV News  

NASA has issued a warning about a massive asteroid named 2024 MT1, which is currently barreling towards Earth at a staggering speed of 65,215 km/h. Planetary defense While there is no immediate danger of asteroid 2024 MT1 colliding with Earth, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office proactively develops strategies to mitigate potential asteroid threats. Astronomical interest The impending close approach of …

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How you can join international search for asteroids
1 year, 4 months ago

How you can join international search for asteroids

The Hindu  

The Cosmology Education and Research Training Center, Mysuru, is facilitating an asteroid search campaign where students get to work on actual data from the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii, U.S., in collaboration with Hands-on Universe, India. The campaign is part of the International Asteroid Search Campaign conducted by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration. Students and interested persons will be given data …

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The celestial police: Meet India’s asteroid hunters
1 year, 8 months ago

The celestial police: Meet India’s asteroid hunters

Live Mint  

It has been an eventful week for astronomers around the world. After initial training, amateur astronomers and asteroid hunters rely largely on astronomical data sets and images shared by large sky surveys to spot these objects. Divyendu Sen, a biology lecturer at the Government Senior Secondary School at Unhel in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district, has been participating in asteroid search campaigns …

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A "planet killer" asteroid is hiding in the Sun's glare
2 years, 1 month ago

A "planet killer" asteroid is hiding in the Sun's glare

Salon  

If you were to gauge humanity by the quantity of our disaster movies, the fear that an asteroid will hit planet Earth looms large — and perhaps rightly so, given this planet's geologic history. Most of the solar system's asteroids orbit in the region of the asteroid belt, which is between Mars and Jupiter, and is a region of the …

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Students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas detect 8 asteroids
3 years, 4 months ago

Students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas detect 8 asteroids

India TV News  

At least sixteen students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas have detected eight asteroids under the Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021, the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the government told PTI on Wednesday. The International Astronomical Search Collaboration conferred "provisional status" on the students' discovery. Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign or KASC trains students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas to detect asteroids. …

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This 7-year-old girl from Brazil discovers 7 asteroids for NASA, becomes world’s youngest astronomer
3 years, 4 months ago

This 7-year-old girl from Brazil discovers 7 asteroids for NASA, becomes world’s youngest astronomer

Live Mint  

Nicole Oliveira, a seven-year-old resident of Alagoas in Brazil, has recently discovered seven asteroids for NASA. Under this programme, Oliviera helped in discovering seven asteroids for which she was given a certificate to appreciate her efforts, according to a report by a Brazilian media website. Recently, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation invited Oliveira to deliver a lecture …

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News18 Afternoon Digest: PM Modi Launches mYoga App on Yoga Day 2021, Summer Solstice Today & Other Top Stories
3 years, 6 months ago

News18 Afternoon Digest: PM Modi Launches mYoga App on Yoga Day 2021, Summer Solstice Today & Other Top Stories

News 18  

mYoga App: All You Need to Know About the ‘Daily Companion’ Launched by PM Modi on Yoga Day 2021 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave the mantra of ‘Yoga se sahyog tak’ while announcing the launch of the mYoga app for yoga training videos that will be available worldwide in different languages and said that the application will play …

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Indian Students Discover 18 New Asteroids as Part of a Global Science Programme
3 years, 9 months ago

Indian Students Discover 18 New Asteroids as Part of a Global Science Programme

News 18  

The International Astronomical Union, an organisation that assigns official names and designations to celestial bodies, has recently confirmed the discovery of 18 new asteroids by Indian students as part of a global science programme. The International Asteroid Discovery Project was conducted by STEM and Space, an organisation working towards the learning of astronomy and space science in India, along with …

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Huge asteroid will come close to Earth on September 1: Is it dangerous?
4 years, 3 months ago

Huge asteroid will come close to Earth on September 1: Is it dangerous?

India TV News  

An asteroid, as huge as a high-rise building, will pass near the Earth on Tuesday, September 1. Asteroid 2011 ES4 will make a close approach towards Earth and will be closer to our planet than the Moon. According to NASA, the asteroid's close approach is "close" on an astronomical scale. 2011 ES4's close approach is 'close' to an astronomical scale …

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Asteroid 2020 ND expected to pass Earth at dizzying speed of 48,000 kmph at 8.43 pm IST
4 years, 5 months ago

Asteroid 2020 ND expected to pass Earth at dizzying speed of 48,000 kmph at 8.43 pm IST

Firstpost  

The asteroid was ’nudged’ into Earth’s near neighbourhood by the gravitational pull of planets as it orbits through the solar system. Asteroid 2020 ND has an estimated diameter of 140 to 300 meters, and will come as close as 50,86,328 kilometres to the Earth. The Centre for Near-Earth Objects Studies at NASA calculates with high precision the orbits for many …

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'Potentially dangerous' Asteroid 2020 ND to move past Earth today: NASA warns
4 years, 5 months ago

'Potentially dangerous' Asteroid 2020 ND to move past Earth today: NASA warns

India TV News  

Asteroid 2020 ND - a huge asteroid is set to move past Earth today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has said. According to the American space agency, asteroid 2020 ND is nearly 170 metre-long and will be as close as 0.034 astronomical units to the Earth. “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid’s …

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Asteroid Bigger Than the London Eye to Zoom Past Earth on 24 July, Says NASA
4 years, 5 months ago

Asteroid Bigger Than the London Eye to Zoom Past Earth on 24 July, Says NASA

News 18  

Approaching of asteroids towards Earth is not a very uncommon event. But such events catch attention when the space rock moving past our planet is of enormous size. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that a space rock almost 1.5 times the size of the London Eye will make its closest approach to Earth on 24 July, reported …

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