NASA Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup between large asteroids. This type of collision can eventually lead […]
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GSA SESSION – TECTONICS AND VOLCANISM IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
GSA 2014 October 19-22, 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada Abstract submission deadline: July 29, 2014 Volcanism, tectonism, faulting and associated interactions have been observed across the solar system and have been […]
Asteroids as Seen From Mars; A Curiosity Rover First
A new image from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is the first ever from the surface of Mars to show an asteroid, and it shows two: Ceres and Vesta. These two […]
Be an Asteroid Hunter in NASA’s First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest Series
NASA’s Asteroid Data Hunter contest series will offer $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids. […]
ASTEROIDS, COMETS, METEORS 2014 (ACM’2014)
June 30 – July 4, 2014 Helsinki, Finland Call for abstracts and registration. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors focuses on the research of small Solar System bodies. Small bodies are the key to […]