Sentences with phrase «earth approaching objects»

And just about twenty «Earth approaching objects» headed our way in the next thirty days.

If the United States wants to put a permanent base on the moon, a valuable mission would be to place an observatory on the far side where it could look for earth approaching objects.

Not exact matches

An object such as, for instance, a silver votive vessel comes into being not only by the interplay between the dark hiddenness of the earth and the radiant openness of the heavens — hidden ores brought up to shine in the light of day — but by the reverently poetic approach of mortals toward the gods and by the lordly approach of the gods toward mortals, out of the hidden realm of the divine, announcing themselves in the powers of nature.

This map shows the overlapping orbits (blue) of the 1,400 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids — objects more than about 400 feet wide that can approach within 4.6 million miles of Earth.

As Derrickson explained at a panel discussion on his film at the California Institute of Technology — where he was joined by Keanu Reeves, Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory roboticist Joel Burdick — Shostak redacted some meaningless mumbo jumbo in the description of the spaceship's approach to Earth and replaced it with «The object was not following a gravitational free - fall trajectory; as such its path was recalculated.»

For the small asteroids that do closely approach Earth, NASA's Near - Earth Object Program has developed a rapid response system whose chief goal is to mobilize NEO-observing assets when an asteroid first appears that could qualify as a potential candidate for the ARM mission.

But without a southern lookout, any object approaching Earth from below 30 degrees latitude would be invisible, says Tim Spahr of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

«I'm not easily surprised by close - Earth approaches any more,» says Don Yeomans, who heads NASA's near - Earth object office in Pasadena, California.

«If a near - Earth object is approaching Earth and we are in great peril, then the U.N. Security Council can make its own decisions about what to do,» says Hans Haubold, a senior officer with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs in Vienna, who has co-authored several papers with Remo.

«This is a record - setting close approach,» says Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program at JPL.

Stuart's original approach to material and process has seen her create large - scale site - specific works in the landscape, sculptural installations incorporating objects, drawings, and audio - visual elements, as well as photographs, drawings and sculptures that bring the material of landscape — earth and rock — into the gallery.

For about $ 1 / day per US citizen, we could set up a full monitoring system for dangerous earth - approaching objects.