Sentences with phrase «on asteroid detection»

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

The former astronaut has so far made little headway within NASA — which is focused instead on returning men to the moon — or even among many scientists who prefer to spend precious funds on asteroid detection.

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Dawn co-investigator Maria Cristina De Sanctis of the National Institute of Astrophysics in Rome, Italy and colleagues report their detection of abundant ammonia - rich minerals on Ceres's surface, suggesting that it was born closer to the vicinity of Pluto even though it now orbits in the Asteroid Belt.

Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres.

In a study published in the journal Nature on Nov. 20, Meech's team writes that the detection of «Oumuamua suggests «previous estimates of the density of interstellar objects were pessimistically low,» and that upcoming upgrades to asteroid survey telescopes (like Pan-STARRS) will likely detect more of these interstellar visitors over the coming years.

«This is the first clear - cut detection of water on Ceres and in the asteroid belt in general,» said Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain, leader of the study detailed today (Jan. 22) in the journal Nature.