Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids
All about Meteorites Comets Asteroids: Meteorite: Stony, iron, stony-iron metal meteoroid or asteroid metal, Cryovolcanism Shape Dwarf Planet Ceres, Asteroid’s Characteristics, planetary shake-up, asteroid Itokawa, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, Meteorite bombardment. Asteroid asteroids facts size belt types, answers to questions like: How are asteroids formed? Where are asteroids found? What are asteroids made of? Comets Interesting facts, famous names of comets, halley’s comet, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud frozen ammonia, methane or water, dirty snowballs and questions like: What are comets made of? Where do comets come from? How big are comets?
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Jul 18, 2014Humanity has plans to expand into space: to the Moon, to Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and to the moons of Mars. Like any trip to anywhere, we need to know certain things before we go. -
Jul 17, 2014Humanity has plans to expand into space: to the Moon, to Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and to the moons of Mars. Like any trip to anywhere, we need to know certain things before we go. -
Jul 8, 2014Scientists have identified the origin of dark material scattered over the surface of Vesta in images from NASA’s Dawn mission. -
Jul 5, 2014The detection of water vapor has implications for mission planning, as Rosetta will become the first spacecraft ever to orbit a comet and deploy a lander to its surface. -
Jun 29, 2014Researchers have developed a new computer model that can predict and visualize the interaction between the solar wind, solar radiation, and the surface of asteroids in unprecedented detail. -
Jun 27, 2014A fantastic look at a fresh comet. -
Jun 23, 2014NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s -- all on the agency's human Path to Mars. -
Jun 20, 2014In late May, NASA's Swift satellite imaged comet Siding Spring, which will brush astonishingly close to Mars later this year. -
Jun 19, 2014Asteroids are usually thought to be a danger to life, but their impact sites could also provide protection from ultraviolet rays. -
Jun 3, 2014A new study indicates that craters on Earth cannot be used to understand Earth's bombardment history.
