Sentences with phrase «dangerous asteroids»

"Dangerous asteroids" refers to space rocks or small celestial bodies that have the potential to cause harm or damage if they collide with Earth. These asteroids could pose a threat to our planet and its inhabitants if their path intersects with our atmosphere. Full definition
A new telescope designed to spot potentially dangerous asteroids has taken its first test images.
The panel issued an interim report in 2009 warning that small yet still dangerous asteroids are going undetected.
Congress has also called on the US Office of Science and Technology Policy to recommend by October 2010 which agency or department, such as NASA or the Department of Defense, should lead US efforts to track dangerous asteroids and develop deflection technologies.
Last week, U.N. officials announced plans to establish an International Asteroid Warning Group to intercept and divert dangerous asteroids.
MASTER telescopes already detected more that 1000 flashes in a distance from several hundred to a billion light years away, and spotted a number of potentially dangerous asteroids.
If an amateur or survey telescope did spot a potentially dangerous asteroid, there would be no need to build bunkers or mount Armageddon - style rescue missions right away.
The analysis of the orbital evolution of the meteorite has showed, according to researchers, a «disturbing similarity» with the evolution of 2014 UR116 which, given its size and minimum distance of intersection with the orbit of the Earth, has been classified as a potentially dangerous asteroid.
According to the paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society journal, the orbital evolution of Annama shows some similarity to the 2014 UR116, a potentially dangerous asteroid (i.e. an object that might collide the Earth) of about 400 meters in diameter that was discovered last year.
The 50 centimetre wide telescope will look outward towards the Earth and beyond, so that dangerous asteroids will always be fully lit.
If a dangerous asteroid were discovered far enough in advance, the group could organise a space mission to deflect it.
One promising way to do that is with a gravitational tractor, a spacecraft sent to fly alongside a dangerous asteroid.
The six winners of the 2015 Shoemaker NEO Grants will use the grants to upgrade their observatories to improve their abilities to study potentially dangerous asteroids.
The 1,000 - ft (305 - m) Arecibo Observatory was damaged when Hurricane Maria made landfall, but has restarted its Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar, which scans potentially dangerous asteroids.
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