Sentences with phrase «visited by asteroid»

And recent discoveries even suggest that we may occasionally be visited by asteroid - like objects coming in from interstellar space.

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He suggested visiting a near - Earth asteroid instead, but a report released on 5 December by the National Academies says that this plan, too, has misfired.

The asteroid will be one of the smallest objects ever visited by a planetary spacecraft.

Two NEAs have been visited by spacecraft: 433 Eros, by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous probe, and 25143 Itokawa, by the JAXA Hayabusa mission.

The research is part of the Measurements of 11 Asteroids and Comets Using Herschel (MACH - 11) program, which used Herschel to look at small bodies that have been or will be visited by spacecraft, including the targets of NASA's previous Deep Impact mission and upcoming Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - Rex).

The mile - wide asteroid Braille, visited by the Deep Space 1 spacecraft in 1999, appears to be a big chip that broke off Vesta.

Several scientifically interesting asteroids could be visited by astronauts with flight times ranging from six months to a year and a half using a 200 - kilowatt (kW) electric propulsion system, which is a reasonable advance over our present capability; the ISS currently has 260 kW of solar arrays installed.

«A current stated interim goal of NASA's human spaceflight program is to visit an asteroid by 2025,» said Albert Carnesale, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who chaired the committee that authored the report.

Such an intriguing metallic planetary body has not been studied before by any spacecraft; other asteroids visited have been of the rocky variety.

For the last few years, the agency's envisioned «Journey to Mars» campaign has included the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), an effort to pluck a boulder from a near - Earth asteroid and drag the rock to lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboarAsteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), an effort to pluck a boulder from a near - Earth asteroid and drag the rock to lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboarasteroid and drag the rock to lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboard Orion.

NASA currently envisions the first two SLS flights, EM - 1 and 2, as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative mission proposal, which aims to robotically redirect a small Near - Earth Asteroid into orbit around the Moon by the end of the decade, to be later visited by human crews.

The Asteroid Initiative is NASA's proposal for implementing President Obama's mandate of sending astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, prior to visiting the vicinity of Mars in thAsteroid Initiative is NASA's proposal for implementing President Obama's mandate of sending astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, prior to visiting the vicinity of Mars in thasteroid by 2025, prior to visiting the vicinity of Mars in the 2030s.

Then on October 1991 asteroid 951 Gaspra was visited by the Galileo spacecraft and became the first asteroid to have hi - resolution images taken of it.

This was the second asteroid to be visited by spacecraft.

Find out more about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by visiting the official Asteroid Base blog as it revs up for its expected 2013 release.