Sentences with phrase «work on asteroid»

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

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Planetary Resources, a Redmond, Washington - based company founded by Peter Diamandis and commercial spaceflight pioneer Eric C. Anderson, is currently working on its own asteroid mining technology.

The winners include Laura Deming, 17, who is developing antiaging therapies; Faheem Zaman, 18, who is building mobile payment systems for developing countries; and John Burnham, 18, who is working on extracting minerals from asteroids and comets.

Since his facility boasts one of the most powerful privately owned telescopes in the country, he has also worked with NASA on projects like tracking the orbits of hundreds of faintly visible known asteroids to determine whether they are on a collision course with Earth.

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.

Hollywood went to work on a series of moderately ludicrous disaster movies — Deep Impact, Armageddon, and Asteroid (featuring the other guy from The Terminator).

The work also suggests — based on the sizes of other impact basins in the Moon, Mars and Mercury — that the early solar system was likely well stocked with protoplanet - sized asteroids.

McCord's grad students set to work on the data and came up with some preliminary findings: Ceres was a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of asteroid composed of water locked in minerals and carbon - based materials), and it had not been thermally altered.

Arecibo's recent work includes searching for gravitational waves by the effect they have on the clocklike regularity of dead stars called pulsars; watching for mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (SN Online: 12/21/16); and keeping tabs on near - Earth asteroids.

Pierazzo is now working on a model to assess how asteroids that hit dry land would affect the atmosphere.

There's no reason that we shouldn't have a significant number of people living and working on the moon, doing geological studies of asteroids and pioneering the path to Mars.

The timetable for NASA's longer - term projects is more handwavy — the Obama administration talks vaguely about missions to an asteroid around 2025 and Mars around 2030 — but the agency is working on a well - defined program, called the Space Launch System, to develop powerful rockets for interplanetary travel, whatever the destination.

But before trying it out in space, researchers first need to work everything out on paper in systematic fashion, like determining how far from a given asteroid the bomb should go off.

Juno needed just 75 square feet of cells to be turned on when it was near Earth, where the light is bright; another 150 square feet helped power Juno through the asteroid belt; and the rest was optimized to work near Jupiter, where radiation is high.

And if an asteroid is detected hurtling toward Earth, scientists and engineers are still working on ways to use spacecraft to alter its orbit.

Boslough accepts the fatality estimates for climate change (the WHO's estimate was made for the agency by epidemiologist Tony McMichael, of the Australian National University's National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health) as well as those for asteroid impacts, the latter of which are based lately on work by Harris.

«An expert on planetary impacts and global catastrophes, Boslough's work on airbursts challenged the conventional view of asteroid collision risk and is now widely accepted by the scientific community.

«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.»

«While Ceres is a lot bigger than the candidate asteroids that NASA is working on sending humans to, many of these smaller bodies are produced by collisions with larger asteroids such as Ceres and Vesta.

We at the CNEOS work on the trajectory and we'd be able to tell where the asteroid was going to hit.

In this future, blue collar men and women work on ice freighters, mining ice / water from asteroids to keep the humans floating through the solar system alive.

This module includes the following: * A check list for students, parents and teachers to ensure that students understand all the content by the time they reach the end of the module; * A list of important terms used in this section * Descriptions of different celestial bodies (planets, stars, moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites) * Opportunities for student engagement - place for students to write their thoughts / answers in spaces provided (individual as well as group work) * Simple explanations on the Earth's rotation, day and night, years and seasons, equinoxes and solstices.

In a case of life imitating art, the European Space Agency is working on an experiment designed to launch a projectile into space and collide with an asteroid in an effort to alter its path away from Earth.

We've been working on these for quite a while and are happy to announce that Asteroids are now available to add to your systems in PA!

Zurovec's lengthy update touches on everything from freelance mining vs. working as an agent to finding an asteroid field and divvying up specialist responsibilities including pilot, scan operator, beam operator, etc..

Previously successful with the one - dimensional hardware game Line Wobbler, he's now focusing on «Robot Space Mining» (working title), a deeper PC simulation game based around asteroid exploration and mining with autonomous robots, which he was prototyping at Stugan.

Brands Tuna has worked with include Family Guy, Big Brother, Cadbury, Asteroids, Boulder Dash, and indie hits Alien Hominid and Eufloria on platforms as wide ranging as iPhone, iPad, Android, Facebook, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PS3.

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Visitors can take their pick from Design Miami, a showcase of eye - catching and inspiring contemporary design work; Art Miami's Context show which showcases emergent artists worthy of extra attention; Tiger Strikes Asteroid's Satellite Art Show, which focuses on independent, non-commercial curatorial approaches; NADA, or the New Art Dealer's Alliance, which engages emerging methods of art curating and dealing; and visitors can even take their turn on a giant, kaleidoscopic roller rink on the beach.

Her nuanced works on paper were the focus of the 2012 solo show, «What you couldn't plan for,» at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, where she is an active artist member and current director.

Would you consider an effort to work together, to combine resources to deflect the asteroid, «a top down global control over the use of energy and the lives of everyone on earth» that you would oppose with every fiber of your being?

There's a teeny chance that a giant asteroid might blast Earth after 2175, so scientists are working on a solution.