Saturday, February 16, 2013

What if an asteroid were really headed our way?

Curtin University asteroid expert Phil Bland told an Australian website, “Is it connected to the flyby? A lot of folks would say “no”. Personally, I've always kind of liked the idea that there are streams of asteroid debris – so you

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will come within 17200 miles of Earth, closer than some satellites. Here's how to watch it online as it passes by Earth today.

Coming so close, the asteroid represents a prime target for scientists who are interested in the object for scientific reasons as well as to improve their abilities to forecast asteroid orbits as a way to keep tabs on potentially hazardous objects

Half the size of a football field, the massive asteroid known as 2012 DA14 will pass about 17,000 miles above Earth traveling five miles per second. Scientists at NASA will be taking radar imagery to learn more and eventually help avoid impact from

Dronebama asteroid will break up into hundreds of smaller (autonomously piloting and targeting) asteroids. Sit, spin, and shoot in a highhat riff. Oh damn, no in fact drones are more like the little triangular spaceship that

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