4 Nov 2011 This Tuesday, November 8th, asteroid 2005 YU55 will fly past the Earth, passing inside the Moon’s orbit along the way. This 1300-foot (400-meter) asteroid was first discovered in 2005 using Arizona’s Steward Observatory Spacewatch Telescope. As this will be the closest flyby of an object this large since 1976, and will not […]
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CMS 50th Anniversary Celebration Video!
Since 1961, the Arizona State University Center for Meteorite Studies has amassed and preserved the world’s largest university-based collection of meteorites to enable research in planetary science and cosmochemistry, and to inspire students, educators, and the general public to learn about the Solar System and our place in it. The Center recently marked our 50th […]
New Flyover Video of Asteroid Vesta!
23 Sep 2011 – 15:55 NASA has released new video of asteroid Vesta, taken by the orbiting Dawn spacecraft. The video, compiled from images collected by Dawn’s framing camera, shows a flyover view of the large asteroid, detailing features such as craters, mountains, cliffs and troughs. Dawn has been in orbit around Vesta since July […]
Earth’s mantle composition influenced by meteorites?
12 Sep 2011 A new study in the journal Nature provides evidence that a late addition of chondritic meteorite material influenced the composition of the Earth’s mantle. This late addition, popularly known as the “late veneer”, is believed to have been added to Earth ~4 billion years ago. The results of the study suggest that […]
Earth’s Companion Asteroid
1 Aug 2011 Astronomers at Canada’s Athabasca University have identified Earth’s first Trojan asteroid using data obtained from NASA’s WISE mission (WISE stands for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). Labeled 2010 TK7, the asteroid has a diameter of approximately 1000 feet (300 metres), and is 50 million miles (80 million kilometres) from Earth. Read more about […]
