Planetary Resources has created a buzz in the tech and nerd circles with their latest video that has gone viral. They very seriously, and humbly, state they are on a mission to begin mining in space for resources, beginning with asteroids close to Earth. Read more on CBS12, USAToday, and WashingtonPost. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fYYPN0BdBw] Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012/04/26/planetary-resources-asteroid-mining-mission/
Two asteroids will pass by Earth this Halloween. The first is 2009 FD, a peculiarly dark asteroid, which will make its closest approach onOctober 29. The second, 2015 TB145, will fly-by on Halloween.Thetwo asteroids won’t be visible to the naked eye, even at their closest approach. The astronomical events have been announced in NASA’s Goldstone…
The end-Cretaceous mass extinction event 66 million years ago is well known to have caused the death of the non-avian dinosaurs, along with at least 50 percentof all plant and animal life on Earth. Most scientists point to a massive asteroid impact as the primary antagonist, but it is true that huge floods of lava…
An asteroid wider than nine ocean liners sailed safely past Earth today (May 31), making its closest flyby of our planet for at least the next 200 years. Asteroid 1998 QE2, which is about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) wide, cruised within 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) of Earth at 4:59 p.m. EDT (2059 GMT)…