Could an Ice Age be Caused by Meteorite Dust?
Barringer Medalist Birger Schmitz’ research covered by NYTimes and SciShow:
Asteroid Day at Both the Impact Site and Observatory!
Don’t miss Asteroid Day events at the sites of both an impact and an observatory in the same day!
Meteorites Contribution to Life on Earth
Much concern, tracking, and funding of research on meteors and asteroids is focused mainly on the destruction and danger to life on earth, but what about their contributions to life?
First Images of DART Impact from Licia Cube
The Italian Space Agency satellite which followed the DART impact has provided these images at the time of impact and just after.
Dual Asteroid Redirection Test SUCCESS!
10 months after launch and 7 million miles away, DART perfectly impacted Dimorphos in the worlds first planetary defense test
DART: one of NASA’s Planetary Defense Missions
DART: Double Asteroid Redirection Test, one of NASA’s planetary defense missions, is aiming for the binary, near-Earth asteroid pair Didymos which orbits Dimorphous.
NASA Soon to Launch Lucy, Asteroid Explorer, Watch Live!
NASA will launch on October 16 the First spacecraft to explore Jupiter’s orbiting asteroids, and LIVE coverage begins at 5am EDT on NASA TV (or the app or on all NASA social media)
From WISE to NEOWISE: Reassigned Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope
NASA has announced the 2009 WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) Space Telescope has a new mission and a new name: NEOWISE (Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)!
Catch the IMAX film -Asteroid Hunters- Just Opened This Month
IMAX has released a new film this month, Asteroid Hunters narrated by Daisy Ridley! Dramatic yet scientific, this film discusses the potential for an asteroid to head for earth and what is being done about it. Barringer Meteorite Crater is aptly featured, as it is considered the best preserved/most visible meteorite crater
The hunt for asteroid impacts on the moon heats up with new observatory
Sometimes a flash in the night is actually an asteroid slamming into the moon. Because such impacts offer valuable information about Earth's own barrage of space rocks, scientists have established programs that look for the brief bright flashes on the moon that represent lunar impacts. A new such telescope recently began operations, confirming observations of another telescope's 100th impact flash detection.
Tiny Fireballs May One Day Reveal Unseen Asteroids
The tiny fireball that flew over Japan in 2017 came from an asteroid that could threaten Earth in 10 million years or so. Scientists are trying to use these little meteors to hunt larger objects.