Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL - NASA's Eyes
Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.
Asteroid Watch - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Asteroid Watch: Keeping an Eye on Near-Earth Objects. Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near-Earth objects, predicts their close approaches with Earth, and makes comprehensive impact hazard assessments in support of the agency’s ...
NASA’s Planetary Radar Tracks Two Large Asteroid Close …
2024年7月3日 · The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently tracked two …
Next Five Asteroid Approaches - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory …
2 天之前 · The dashboard displays the next five Earth approaches to within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance to the moon); an object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous object.
Live updates: DART asteroid space mission | CNN
2022年9月27日 · The Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, spacecraft has been traveling to reach its asteroid target since launching in November 2021. On Monday, it hit its target going about...
NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion …
2022年10月11日 · Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first ...
Eyes on Asteroids | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Eyes on Asteroids. See thousands of asteroids and comets in real-time, see the next five close approaches to Earth, and explore past, present and future missions to asteroids and comets. This interactive visualization uses data from JPL's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), which computes high-precision orbits for Near-Earth Objects ...
NASA’s DART mission will slam into an asteroid: Live updates | AP …
2022年9月27日 · A NASA spacecraft has rammed an asteroid in an unprecedented test to see if a potentially menacing space rock could be knocked off course. The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles away Monday.
What We Learned From NASA’s DART Mission - The New York Times
2022年9月26日 · LAUREL, Md. — It’s the plot point for more than one Hollywood blockbuster: A rogue asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, threatening tsunamis, mass destruction and the death of every human being on...
Update: Webb and Hubble Photos Show NASA’s DART Asteroid …
2022年9月27日 · NASA’s DART spacecraft was not able to take pictures of the very moment it slammed into an asteroid on Monday at more than 14,000 miles per hour. Or the aftermath. But telescopes on Earth, seven...