An autonomous celestial observatory developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and funded by NASA to study asteroids and comets. The facility is a cooperative effort between the ...

A giant asteroid is heading for Earth and could hit in 2014, U.S. astronomers have warned British space monitors.

On Thursday, November 8, 2007, the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing to examine the status of NASA's Near-Earth ...

Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earth 's orbit. All near-Earth asteroids spend part of their orbits between 0.983 and 1.3 astronomical units ...

NEAR - First spacecraft to orbit an asteroid, to answer fundamental questions about the nature and origin of near-Earth objects, such as the numerous asteroids and comets in the ...

Recently Discovered Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Record-breaking Approach to Earth

NASA Statement on Student Asteroid Calculations April 16, 2008. The Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has not changed its ...

The orbit of asteroid 2004 MN4 is shown in blue. Earth's orbit is the outermost white circle. The positions of the asteroid and the Earth are shown for December 23, 2004, when the ...

An Earth-crosser asteroid is a Near-Earth asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth. The known numbered Earth-crossers are listed here. Those Earth-crossers whose semi-major axes ...

It appears that life may be imitating art. If you watched either of the 1998 movies Deep Impact or Armageddon, you may have an idea of the future that faces Earth.

A newfound asteroid tagged with the highest warning level ever issued will not strike Earth, scientists said Monday.

433 Eros - Near-Earth asteroid being studied from orbit by the NEAR mission, which flew by Eros in February 1999 and went into orbit in February 2000.

Detailed mission information, images, and links related to the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Space Exploration Resources School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University

A sizable asteroid zipped near our planet this month without anyone noticing because it traveled through an astronomical blind spot, scientists said.

Earth dodged a bullet today, when asteroid TU24 passed within 540,000 kilometers of our planet, which is just down the street on a galactic scale. Tomorrow, another asteroid ...

We plan S-band delay-Doppler imaging of 4179 Toutatis in October 2004, shortly after this 2.5-km near-Earth asteroid's Sep.29 approach to 0.010 AU of Earth.

The first near-Earth triple asteroid was discovered this week by astronomers using the radar telescope at Arecibo Observatory. The objects, which are rotating around each other ...

Read about Near Earth Asteroid and Near Earth Object and other info on the planets. ... Most Near Earth Asteroids are believed to be main belt asteroids that were knocked out of ...

53319 (1999 JM8): Radar images capture big, slowly tumbling near-Earth asteroid: Asteroid 1998 KY26: Radar and optical observations reveal a tiny, fast ...

Backyard astronomers the world over in the northern hemisphere are looking forward to the closest approach of Near-Earth Asteroid TU24 on the evening of January

A small near-Earth asteroid (NEA), discovered Monday night by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey, will make the closest approach to Earth ever recorded. There is no danger of a ...

Scientists using the Goldstone antenna obtain radar images of near-Earth asteroid TU24. ... Planetary News: Asteroids and Comets (2008) First Images of Near-Earth Asteroid TU24

Pursuing a solar system whodunit, scientists say they may have identified the source of a cataclysmic asteroid bombardment that pummeled Earth some 3.9 billion years ago.

Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) is an MIT Lincoln Laboratory program funded by the United States Air Force and NASA. The goal of LINEAR is to demonstrate the ...

Questions and Answers regarding Near-Earth Asteroids. David Rabinowitz,on behalf of the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) team. 1998 Feb 24

A big and bright near-Earth asteroid will glide by our planet on Dec. 16th within easy range of powerful radars and backyard telescopes.

... images from NSSDC; lots more info from Zeljko Lipanovic the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission; more about the discovery of Eros, the first known near-Earth asteroid Eros images ...

Asteroid 2007 TU24 ... This radar image of 2007 TU24 was obtained on January 28, 2008, about 12 hours before the asteroid's 1.4-lunar-distance pass by the Earth.

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