Monday, February 18, 2013
The agency is reported to be investing $5 million in a project.
A Hawaii news outlet reports NASA has invested in a project that would provide early detection of asteroids and meteors entering Earth's atmosphere. ATLAS — or Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — recently received $5 million in funding from the agency, Khon 2 reports. The system will be able to detect when and where a space rock will hit. News of the project comes after a meteor disintegrated Feb. 15 over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring more than 980 people. The meteor had no connection, NASA said, to an asteroid that camee within 17,200 miles of Earth the same day. You might also be interested in reading:
Monday, June 4, 2012
June 5 and 6, Venus will cross the face of the sun during the "Transit of Venus." Local viewing parties planned in Dacula and Loganville.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Twice each century, a rare event takes place as Venus passes across the face of the sun. According to NASA, the last event happened in 2004 and will occur again on June 5 and 6, 2012. Although the entire eclipse will be visible from certain countries, in the United States it will only be visible as it begins on June 5. The sun will set before the event ends. Venus will be seen as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the sun, the Transit of Venus website explains. Experts warn viewers to take precautions and not stare directly into the sun (see video for details). Viewers who miss this week's event will not have another chance to see the transit of Venus. The event will not take place again until December 2117. The Transit of …
Friday, June 24, 2011
Newly discovered asteroid will zip by only 7,500 miles above the planet’s surface or roughly the same distance as Dacula to Afghanistan.
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Friday, June 24, 2011
A team tasked with monitoring the skies for near-Earth objects (NEOs) that threaten the planet has discovered an asteroid that will pass only 7,500 miles above the Earth’s surface on June 27 -- a distance roughly the same as between Dacula, Ga. and Kabul, Afghanistan. The asteroid, named 2011 MD, was discovered by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project, a program funded by the United States Air Force and NASA. A statement posted June 23 on NASA’s Near Earth Object Program website indicates the newly discovered asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth in the southern hemisphere over the southern Atlantic Ocean. In those areas, the asteroid should be bright enough to be seen with a “modest-sized telescope," …
Craig Reed
12:25 pm on Saturday, June 25, 2011
Animations of asteroid fly-by and GPS satellites at risk http://orbit.psi.edu/~tricaric/2011MD.html more ›