Asteroids, Comets and Meteorites What is an Asteroid? Asteroids
... Churyumov- Gerasimenko for more than 1 year 10 years to intercept Lander for nucleus Mar 2004 ~ 2015 ...
... Churyumov- Gerasimenko for more than 1 year 10 years to intercept Lander for nucleus Mar 2004 ~ 2015 ...
Small Bodies in the Solar System
... • Both are heavily cratered by impacts with smaller asteroids & comets. • Ida is about 56 km long & Dactyl is about 1.5 km. • You can just see Dactyl in this picture. ...
... • Both are heavily cratered by impacts with smaller asteroids & comets. • Ida is about 56 km long & Dactyl is about 1.5 km. • You can just see Dactyl in this picture. ...
Powerpoint
... 1992: A football-sized meteorite crashed through the trunk of Michelle Knapp’s Chevrolet Malibu Classic in Peekskill, New York ...
... 1992: A football-sized meteorite crashed through the trunk of Michelle Knapp’s Chevrolet Malibu Classic in Peekskill, New York ...
OSIRIS-REx Frequently Asked Questions
... NASA has stringent protocols to ensure that its missions do not transport threatening materials to Earth. An international treaty governs NASA’s activities related to planetary protection. NASA’s OSIRISREx mission follows these protocols and all related requirements to prevent contamination of the E ...
... NASA has stringent protocols to ensure that its missions do not transport threatening materials to Earth. An international treaty governs NASA’s activities related to planetary protection. NASA’s OSIRISREx mission follows these protocols and all related requirements to prevent contamination of the E ...
Asteroids, Comets, Meteors…what`s the difference
... ______________________); comets are dark (virtually invisible) throughout most of their orbit. We can only see comets when they're near the Sun. The ______________________ passes through the orbit of some comets. When this happens, the left-over comet comet debris (rocks, etc.) bombards the Earth, a ...
... ______________________); comets are dark (virtually invisible) throughout most of their orbit. We can only see comets when they're near the Sun. The ______________________ passes through the orbit of some comets. When this happens, the left-over comet comet debris (rocks, etc.) bombards the Earth, a ...
Grade 9 Science Part 3 Other Celestial Bodies
... Can be short period (<200 year orbit) or long period ...
... Can be short period (<200 year orbit) or long period ...
Mission 1 Glossary
... An area that satellites travel in that is about 200-500 miles (320-800 kilometers) above Earth. Satellites traveling in Low Earth Orbit have to travel very fast so that gravity does not pull them back out into the atmosphere. ...
... An area that satellites travel in that is about 200-500 miles (320-800 kilometers) above Earth. Satellites traveling in Low Earth Orbit have to travel very fast so that gravity does not pull them back out into the atmosphere. ...
THE COSMIC CRASH
... past the Earth on 29 January, giving astronomers a rare and relatively close-up glimpse of such a large object in near space. Even amateur astronomers should have been able to spot the asteroid when it was at its closest point to the Earth - around 534,000 kilometres (334,000miles). That’s about 1.4 ...
... past the Earth on 29 January, giving astronomers a rare and relatively close-up glimpse of such a large object in near space. Even amateur astronomers should have been able to spot the asteroid when it was at its closest point to the Earth - around 534,000 kilometres (334,000miles). That’s about 1.4 ...
REVIEW FOR TEST ON THURSDAY!!!! 1. Scientist can use for
... things every day! What makes it possible for scientists gather new information about atmospheres we never studied before? A. People like you designing new instruments and technology that help them see things they could never see before. B. New theories that change the way scientists interpret alread ...
... things every day! What makes it possible for scientists gather new information about atmospheres we never studied before? A. People like you designing new instruments and technology that help them see things they could never see before. B. New theories that change the way scientists interpret alread ...
Volume 20 Number 5 April 2012 - Forsyth Astronomical Society
... The Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope has just crossed a new electromagnetic frontier. An astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center said “Fermi is picking up crazy-energetic photons - and it's detecting so many of them we've been able to produce the first all-sky map of the very high energy universe ...
... The Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope has just crossed a new electromagnetic frontier. An astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center said “Fermi is picking up crazy-energetic photons - and it's detecting so many of them we've been able to produce the first all-sky map of the very high energy universe ...
Biblical Astrophysics - The Call of the Bride
... (Amos 8:8-9) The earth will tremble for your deeds, and everyone will mourn. The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime; it will heave up, then sink again. "In that day," says the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth while it is still day. (The Earth's ...
... (Amos 8:8-9) The earth will tremble for your deeds, and everyone will mourn. The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime; it will heave up, then sink again. "In that day," says the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth while it is still day. (The Earth's ...
Diapositiva 1 - Yale University
... passing close to Earth with almost no prior warning should be enough to get ...
... passing close to Earth with almost no prior warning should be enough to get ...
Vagabonds of the Solar System
... away by solar wind to form the straight ion tail – The distinct blue color is caused by emission from carbon-bearing molecules such as CN and C2. ...
... away by solar wind to form the straight ion tail – The distinct blue color is caused by emission from carbon-bearing molecules such as CN and C2. ...
Asteroids - Trimble County Schools
... hazardous” – more than 150 m in diameter and come within 0.05 AU of Earth. 1994 - 2004, more than 850 asteroids passed within 15 million km of Earth. At least 200 are predicted to pass within that same distance in the next decade. ...
... hazardous” – more than 150 m in diameter and come within 0.05 AU of Earth. 1994 - 2004, more than 850 asteroids passed within 15 million km of Earth. At least 200 are predicted to pass within that same distance in the next decade. ...
Solar System Astrometry
... passing close to Earth with almost no prior warning should be enough to get our attention. The first step is to assess the threat. Given the vast number of asteroids and comets that inhabit the Earth's neighborhood, greater efforts for tracking and monitoring these objects are critical. This bill wo ...
... passing close to Earth with almost no prior warning should be enough to get our attention. The first step is to assess the threat. Given the vast number of asteroids and comets that inhabit the Earth's neighborhood, greater efforts for tracking and monitoring these objects are critical. This bill wo ...
Cosmic Collisions
... It is one of the largest known, with a diameter of about 100 km. The crater is a multiplering structure, but the feature that shows up best in this Landsat satellite photo is the inner ring, which is occupied by lake Manicouagan with an outer diameter of about 70 km. The impact occurred 214 million ...
... It is one of the largest known, with a diameter of about 100 km. The crater is a multiplering structure, but the feature that shows up best in this Landsat satellite photo is the inner ring, which is occupied by lake Manicouagan with an outer diameter of about 70 km. The impact occurred 214 million ...
Attachment
... of dust and rock that are found in space. • Meteors are meteoroids that reach the atmosphere. • Meteorites are meteors that reach Earth. ...
... of dust and rock that are found in space. • Meteors are meteoroids that reach the atmosphere. • Meteorites are meteors that reach Earth. ...
Asteroids and Meteorites
... • Meteorites let us sample the primiFve and processed material elsewhere in the solar system • Most originate in the asteroid belt • Most are idenFfiable with an asteroid family • Large rocks will hit ...
... • Meteorites let us sample the primiFve and processed material elsewhere in the solar system • Most originate in the asteroid belt • Most are idenFfiable with an asteroid family • Large rocks will hit ...
Chapter15_New
... showers last for a few hours or days and occur on about the same date each year. meteorite — The portion of a meteoroid that reaches the Earth’s surface. meteoroid — A solid interplanetary particle passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. micrometeorite — A meteoritic particle less than 50 millionths ...
... showers last for a few hours or days and occur on about the same date each year. meteorite — The portion of a meteoroid that reaches the Earth’s surface. meteoroid — A solid interplanetary particle passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. micrometeorite — A meteoritic particle less than 50 millionths ...
Grade 9 Science Part 3 Other Celestial Bodies
... Can be short period (<200 year orbit) or long period ...
... Can be short period (<200 year orbit) or long period ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Small Bodies in the Solar System
... > 200 asteroids larger than 60 miles (100 kilometers) in diameter. > 750,000 asteroids larger than three-fifths of a mile (1 km) in diameter and millions of smaller ones. ...
... > 200 asteroids larger than 60 miles (100 kilometers) in diameter. > 750,000 asteroids larger than three-fifths of a mile (1 km) in diameter and millions of smaller ones. ...
13.Asteroids - University of New Mexico
... samples of the object for return to Earth. The problems encountered Nov. 12 with the release by Japan’s Hayabusa space probe of its camera-toting robot highlight the difficulty of this kind of mission. The robot probe, called the MIcro/Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid (MINERVA), was lost ...
... samples of the object for return to Earth. The problems encountered Nov. 12 with the release by Japan’s Hayabusa space probe of its camera-toting robot highlight the difficulty of this kind of mission. The robot probe, called the MIcro/Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid (MINERVA), was lost ...
PowerPoint file - High Point University
... that Pluto formed as part of a larger group of comet-like objects, which should still be there. • 1980s: Theorists predicted 200 million objects between 34 and 50 AU. ...
... that Pluto formed as part of a larger group of comet-like objects, which should still be there. • 1980s: Theorists predicted 200 million objects between 34 and 50 AU. ...
PowerPoint Presentation - AST121 Introduction to Astronomy
... that Pluto formed as part of a larger group of comet-like objects, which should still be there. • 1980s: Theorists predicted 200 million objects between 34 and 50 AU. ...
... that Pluto formed as part of a larger group of comet-like objects, which should still be there. • 1980s: Theorists predicted 200 million objects between 34 and 50 AU. ...
Asteroid impact avoidance
Asteroid impact avoidance comprises a number of methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) could be diverted, preventing destructive impact events. A sufficiently large impact by an asteroid or other NEOs would cause, depending on its impact location, massive tsunamis, multiple firestorms and an impact winter caused by the sunlight blocking effect of placing large quantities of pulverized rock dust, and other debris, into the stratosphere.A collision between the Earth and an approximately 10-kilometre-wide object 66 million years ago is thought to have produced the Chicxulub Crater and the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, widely held responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.While the chances of a major collision are not great in the near term, there is a high probability that one will happen eventually unless defensive actions are taken. Recent astronomical events—such as the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter and the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor along with the growing number of objects on the Sentry Risk Table—have drawn renewed attention to such threats.