Article: "Rutgers scientists: Asteroids did kill the dinosaurs"
Updated: 2010-11-29 22:03:00
: : : This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . Time for site updates is donated by SpaceWorks Commercial in Washington , D.C . USA to the author . All opinions are those of the . author 29 November 2010 Article : Rutgers scientists : Asteroids did kill the dinosaurs Credit : Nick Romanenko , Rutgers University . Research scientist Paul Field , professors Ken Miller and Rob Sherrell with one of the core samples from Tighe Park , Freehold , . N.J Selections from the article Sometimes , you just can’t trust the iridium . A silvery-white natural metal that’s a member of the platinum family , iridium is a key ingredient in the manufacture of spark plugs . Iridium is also an important piece of
: This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . Time for site updates is donated by SpaceWorks Commercial in Washington , D.C . USA to the author . All opinions are those of the . author 23 November 2010 1958 Italian Asteroid movie The Day the Sky Exploded Mexican Lobby Card for The Day the Sky Exploded The Day The Sky Exploded 1958 The Day The Sky Exploded Part 1 9 Article on the Space Review from Dwayne Day on a 1958 Italian Asteroid movie The Day the Sky Exploded If you turn on the Discovery Science Channel on a lazy Saturday afternoon , there is a pretty good chance that they will be showing a documentary” about killer asteroids . That word should always be used in quotation marks , because
: This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . Time for site updates is donated by SpaceWorks Commercial in Washington , D.C . USA to the author . All opinions are those of the . author 21 November 2010 Articles on Hayabusa Mission and Asteroid Particles Collection Credit : JAXA Selections from the article The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA has confirmed that the tiny particles inside the Hayabusa spacecraft‘s sample return container are in fact from the asteroid Itokawa . Scientists examined the particles to determine if the probe successfully captured and brought back anything from the asteroid , and in a press release said about 1,500 grains were identified as rocky particles , and
: : This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . Time for site updates is donated by SpaceWorks Commercial in Washington , D.C . USA to the author . All opinions are those of the . author 21 November 2010 Article : Asteroid 2010 WA Close Approach Update from 16 November 2010 This photo taken on Nov . 16, 2010 shows the asteroid 2010 WA as it passes within 24,000 miles 38,000 kilometers as seen by astronomers using a telescope at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico . It is about 10 feet 3 meters wide . Credit : Dr . William Ryan Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4-meter Telescope New Mexico Tech Selections from the article . The space rock , called asteroid 2010 WA , flew within 24,000 miles
: : This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . Time for site updates is donated by SpaceWorks Commercial in Washington , D.C . USA to the author . All opinions are those of the . author 21 November 2010 Paper : Rotational Mass Driver an Efficient NEO Deflection Concept Source : nbsp Z . M . Ilitz , nbsp Rotational Mass Driver an Efficient NEO Deflection Concept Paper sent by the author on his NEO impact mitigation . concept Rotational Mass Driver an Efficient NEO Deflection Concept by Z . M . Ilitz Subotica , Serbia from Protecting the Earth against Collisions with Asteroids and Comet Nuclei , Proceedings of the International Conference : Asteroid-Comet Hazard–2009, Saint Petersburg , Russia ,
: This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . Time for site updates is donated by SpaceWorks Commercial in Washington , D.C . USA to the author . All opinions are those of the . author 18 November 2010 Brian Geoffrey Marsden 1937-2010 Press Announcement : Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 18 November 2010 Article : Scientific American Article Keeper of the Objects 14 July 2003 Credit : Harold Dorwin Image : Roger Ressmeyer CORBIS Image : Roger Ressmeyer CORBIS Retrospectives on Brian Geoffrey . Marsden From Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams 2554 also Simoastronomy blog entry Electronic Telegram No . 2554, Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams , nbsp INTERNATIONAL
Brian Marsden, 1937 - 2010 (from Planetary News)
On the Planetary Society web site: Good Luck, Nanosail-D!
Over the course of the nine months we've been operating WISE, we've observed over 150,000 asteroids and comets of all different types. We had to pick all of these moving objects out of the hundreds of millions of sources observed all over the sky -- so you can imagine that sifting through all those stars and galaxies to find the asteroids is not easy! 
: : This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . Time for site updates is donated by SpaceWorks Commercial in Washington , D.C . USA to the author . All opinions are those of the . author 09 November 2010 Purdue University's Impact : Earth asteroid impact effects calculator The parameters screen of the Impact : Earth website allows users to input the diameter and density of the projectile , the impact angle and velocity , and whether the projectile will hit water or rock . Information Technology at Purdue image Michele Rund The results screen shows users the likely scenario of their impact , including crater size , seismic effects , air blast , energy equivalent and global damage . Information
: This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . Time for site updates is donated by SpaceWorks Commercial in Washington , D.C . USA to the author . All opinions are those of the . author 09 November 2010 Paper on Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ATLAS New paper on arXiv.org on the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ATLAS from John Tonry from the University of . Hawaii Title : An Early Warning System for Asteroid Impact Author : John L . Tonry Submitted on 3 Nov 2010 Abstract : Earth is bombarded by meteors , occasionally by one large enough to cause a significant explosion and possible loss of life . Although the odds of a deadly asteroid strike in the next century are low 
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