Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...
Nostradamus's writings suggest that 2025 could bring significant challenges, including a potential asteroid collision and a plague-like outbreak in the UK. Nostradamus, a French astrologer and ...
Tianwen-2 is an asteroid sample return mission with near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) as its destination. The asteroid is roughly the size of a Ferris wheel – between 150 and 190 ...
The newly developed equation is based on a geometric optics model This precision surpasses previous attempts The implications of this work extend beyond asteroid tracking In a groundbreaking ...
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While it is reassuring that AI algorithms like THOR and HelioLinc3D have accelerated asteroid detection at an unprecedented scale, minimizing the chances of an unexpected impact, studies are still ...
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