Sentences with phrase «on asteroid itokawa»

The same thing occurs on an asteroid.

So I guess you will demand we spend trillions on an asteroid protection shield since the odds of the earth getting hit with an extinction sized event is between 0 and 100 % in the next 100 million years.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Asteroid and Comet Watch page has much more detail, and here's a video explainer on the asteroid:

Last year in an earlier post on asteroid impacts, Mr. Schweickart mused on an issue at the heart of Dot Earth — how political systems, reflecting human nature, still seem to be having a hard time integrating scientific understanding, uncertainties and all, in ways that result in policies and investments that could blunt risks while fostering prosperity.

Santiago's work on Asteroid Challenge includes the logo design and user interface graphics.

humans have landed on an asteroid to mine valuable minerals from it, however as they burrow into the ground, the sentient rock produces its own auto - immune response, much in the same way that the human body produces white - blood cells in response to an infection.

You awake one day as a space rover on an asteroid in the middle of who - knows - where -LSB-...]

Wait did nt he also say you can land on asteroid.

They've nailed the whole feeling of landing on an asteroid with a mining colony on it.

The Dome is the last community of human survivors on an asteroid - devastated Earth, which is now the province of savage Shredders and lethal Dust.

According to a very apt reviewer on Doodling's Kindle store page, at first glance the book seems like a pleasantly silly story about a man flinging off the Earth's surface quite by mistake as the planet's rotation begins to spin out of control, forcing him to set up hearth on an asteroid.

In the former film, Bruce Willis» character stays on the asteroid to blow it up, and in the latter film, Robert Duvall's crew crashes into the comet to break it up.

«Unless the metal [was] mined on an asteroid, I do not know why it should cost that amount,» she said.

The game takes place on an asteroid.

So that incident with me and the gun on the asteroid - Let's keep that under wraps all right?

So that incident with me and the gun on the asteroid....

While exposed water ice would not be stable at the surface of Ceres at its relatively close distance to the Sun, water and ammonia do appear to be bound up in crustal minerals on the asteroid's surface.

Both forces are proportional to the local gravity, so the «angle of repose,» even on an asteroid, is still about 30 degrees.

On March 21, 2012, the Dawn Mission team revealed that they had detected unusual bright and dark spots on the asteroid.

Most of the large asteroids in the Asteroid Belt are already known, so this means that either the meteorite originated on an asteroid that has been eroded, or there is another large asteroid out there.

NASA is preparing to test out its planetary defense systems on an asteroid that will come extremely close to Earth next week.

On February 12, NEAR Shoemaker becomes the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

«It will be incumbent upon the observatories to get a fix on the asteroid as it approaches, and work together to obtain follow - up observations that make more refined asteroid orbit determinations possible.»

Scientists plan to test a network of observatories that have been set up as an asteroid warning system — being able to try this out on an asteroid that is coming so close to Earth will allow them to refine the network and the techniques used to track near Earth objects.

The Yarkovsky effect is a force on an asteroid when it absorbs sunlight and then radiates it back into space as heat.

Or on an asteroid.

The landing of the NEAR - Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros J. Veverka, B. Farquhar, M. Robinson, P. Thomas, S. Murchie, A. Harch, P. G. Antreasian, S. R. Chesley, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen Jr., B. G. Williams, D. Yeomans, D. Dunham, G. Heyler, M. Holdridge, R. L. Nelson, K. E. Whittenburg, J. C. Ray, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, C. Chapman, J. F. Bell III, M. Bell, B. Bussey, B. Clark, D. Domingue, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, N. Izenberg, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, P. Lucey, M. Malin, L. McFadden, W. J. Merline, C. Peterson, L. Prockter, J. Warren, and D. Wellnitz Nature 413, 390 — 393, doi: 10.1038 / 35096507, 27 September 2001.

Breakthrough Listen, which is engaged in an ambitious mission to search one million nearby stars, and 100 galaxies for evidence of technologically advanced alien species, has tasked the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, located in West Virginia, with collecting data on the asteroid across four radio bands, from 1 — 12 GHz, over the course of an initial 10 - hour period.

The astronauts also evaluated a version of the spacesuit that could be worn on an asteroid.

A team of researchers has discovered that a near - Earth asteroid, included on NASA's list of potential threats to Earth, is composed of loosely - connected debris held together by forces that have not been seen on an asteroid before.

In a statement, NASA said the radar data could reveal details on the asteroid's exterior just a few yards across.

A project to map the impact sequence on the asteroid Vesta is helping scientists compare its history to other solar system objects.

It will also employ a hopping robot, which can move around on the asteroid's surface.

In 1991, for instance, the Galileo spacecraft revealed numerous craters on the asteroid Gaspra, a lump of rock between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter measuring all of 15 kilometres across.

The craters on the asteroid will all bear names of other spas around the world, including Bath (England), Aix (France) and Spa (Belgium).

The space rock, about as wide as three football fields, won't do any damage to Earth, but the near miss could trigger tiny avalanches on the asteroid itself.

The experiment adds weight to the theory of panspermia — that life could somehow be transported between planets, perhaps by hitching a ride on an asteroid.

Mining on an asteroid is fraught with difficulty due to the space rock's low gravity and the fact that it is hurtling through space.

Forward's laser sailing becomes much cheaper when the spacecraft merely need to be large enough to contain a «seed probe,» a robot capable of landing on an asteroid or planet in the target solar system and building up a new civilization from scratch.

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.

When the spacecraft touched down on asteroid Itokawa in November 2005, there were questions about whether it could get back home because of attitude control device failures and fuel leaks.

NASA plans to hone its sample - return skills in 2016 with OSIRIS - REx, a boxy spacecraft that will land on an asteroid, collect chunks of rock and dust, and then return to Earth.

Japan's Hayabusa probe will land on asteroid Itokawa in the summer of 2005, then lift off and return a sample to Earth two years later.

The United States has spent less on asteroid detection over the past 15 years than the production budget of the 1998 asteroid movie Armageddon.

Space agencies might be able to place instruments on the asteroid's surface that could «tell us how potentially hazardous asteroids like Apophis are put together,» he says.

Living up to all the ambitions of its official name, OSIRIS - REx would explore the origins of asteroids and thus the solar system itself, connect spectral colors observable from Earth to specific minerals on the asteroid, identify potential resources such as water for rocket fuel, help evaluate the threat of asteroids to Earth, and return some regolith (asteroid soil) for detailed analysis.

Russell's team also noticed a variety of colors and minerals on the asteroid's surface, with bright spots — perhaps crystals or another reflective material — interspersed with black streaks on scarps and crater walls.

The team looked at previously dated meteorites that had evidence of explosive heating and ancient argon, and they modeled the collision and its blowback on the asteroid belt to pinpoint the timing of the planetary crash.

«Privately, a lot of us always thought that we were going to land on the asteroid,» says Cheng, revealing a closely held secret.

The real fun starts in January 1999, when near begins a year in orbit around 25 - mile - long Eros, culminating with a crash landing on that asteroid's surface.