Other major meetings attended by section officers were the EUROPLANET N3 Strategic Workshop «Stellar Occultation Studies» in Paris and
Meeting on Asteroids and Comets in
Not exact matches
Regardless of the presentation, the
Asteroid Redirect Mission
met a chilly reception in the House of Representatives, where the Committee
on Science, Space and Technology passed an authorization bill that would halt work
on the project.
The new observations suggest water ice, mixed with organic molecules, is «widespread
on the surface of the
asteroid», Humberto Campins of the University of Central Florida in Orlando reported at a
meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, last week.
In 1992 there was a
meeting at Los Alamos National Laboratory to look at the consequences of large
asteroid impacts
on Earth.
Subsequent images, shown here
on 13 December at a
meeting of the American Geophysical Union, reveal new details of the modest jets and the reflectivity of Borrelly's 8 - kilometer - long nucleus, the
asteroid - like body at the center of the comet.
ASK anyone you
meet how the dinosaurs
met their end 65 million years ago, and they're likely to blame it all
on an
asteroid.