Asteroids and Comets News


Mission Press Releases

  • NASA Hosts Nov. 26 Teleconference and Nov. 28 Hangout to Discuss Comet Nearing Sun
    NASA HQ - Monday, November 25, 2013
    Posted on: 11/26/2013 1:03:22 AM PDT

  • Planetary Resources Partners with NASA to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection
    Planetary Resources - Thursday, November 21, 2013
    Posted on: 11/21/2013 11:52:39 PM PDT

  • NASA, Planetary Resources Sign Agreement to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection
    - Thursday, November 21, 2013
    Posted on: 11/21/2013 11:51:19 PM PDT

  • B612 Foundation receives support from ICES
    B612 Foundation - Wednesday, November 13, 2013
    Posted on: 11/14/2013 2:21:23 AM PDT

  • NASA Continues Workshop to Discuss Asteroid Initiative Ideas
    NASA HQ - Tuesday, November 12, 2013
    Posted on: 11/13/2013 2:29:12 AM PDT

  • New research shows events like Russian asteroid may happen more frequently
    Western University - Wednesday, November 6, 2013
    Posted on: 11/6/2013 11:13:02 PM PDT

  • SGAC / NEO PG Asteroid Naming Contest
    Space Generation Advisory Council - Monday, October 28, 2013
    Posted on: 10/28/2013 1:24:22 PM PDT

  • Defending Earth From Asteroids
    B612 Foundation - Wednesday, October 23, 2013
    Posted on: 10/25/2013 3:24:19 PM PDT

  • Will Comet ISON Survive Its Brush with the Sun?
    Southwest Research Institute - Wednesday, October 9, 2013
    Posted on: 10/9/2013 7:07:09 PM PDT

  • Insight into Space Collisions from Chelyabinsk Fireball
    Finnish Geodetic Institute - Tuesday, October 8, 2013
    Posted on: 10/8/2013 6:11:33 PM PDT

  • Dawn Mission Provides Reality Check for Hubble and Earth-Based Telescope Studies of Vesta
    Planetary Science Institute - Friday, September 27, 2013
    Posted on: 9/27/2013 8:21:18 PM PDT

  • NASA Hosts Workshop to Discuss Asteroid Initiative Ideas
    NASA HQ - Tuesday, September 24, 2013
    Posted on: 9/25/2013 2:02:28 AM PDT

  • B612 Foundation Adds New Board Members and Advisors
    B612 Foundation - Thursday, September 19, 2013
    Posted on: 9/19/2013 11:45:21 PM PDT

  • University of Tennessee Professor Helps to Discover Near-Earth Asteroid is Really a Comet
    University of Tennessee Knoxville - Tuesday, September 10, 2013
    Posted on: 9/10/2013 8:54:26 PM PDT

  • NASA Discusses Asteroid Initiative Progress at AIAA's Space 2013
    NASA HQ - Monday, September 9, 2013
    Posted on: 9/10/2013 12:00:30 AM PDT

  • Changes in Comet Rotation May be Predicted With Greater Accuracy
    Planetary Science Institute - Thursday, September 5, 2013
    Posted on: 9/5/2013 4:17:01 PM PDT

  • NASA Selects Deep Space Industries for Multiple Presentations
    Deep Space Industries - Wednesday, September 4, 2013
    Posted on: 9/4/2013 9:09:50 PM PDT

  • NASA Selects Top 96 Asteroid Initiative Ideas
    NASA HQ - Wednesday, September 4, 2013
    Posted on: 9/4/2013 2:58:22 PM PDT

  • NASA Releases New Imagery of Asteroid Mission
    NASA HQ - Thursday, August 22, 2013
    Posted on: 8/22/2013 7:36:40 PM PDT

  • NASA Spacecraft Reactivated to Hunt for Asteroids
    NASA HQ - Wednesday, August 21, 2013
    Posted on: 8/21/2013 9:17:26 PM PDT

    		• Mission Status Releases

  • High Precision Astrometry in Asteroid Mitigation - the NEOShield Perspective
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - November 24, 2013
    Posted on: 11/24/2013 7:05:40 PM PDT

  • Free Smarthone App for Tracking Fireballs
    Planetary Exploration Newsletter - November 10, 2013
    Posted on: 11/10/2013 7:12:37 PM PDT

  • New Dates to Resume NASA Asteroid Workshop
    NASA HQ - October 25, 2013
    Posted on: 10/25/2013 7:33:52 PM PDT

  • The Population of Tiny Near-Earth Objects Observed by NEOWISE
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 14, 2013
    Posted on: 10/14/2013 1:28:20 PM PDT

  • Meteor Showers on Earth from Sungrazing Comets
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 14, 2013
    Posted on: 10/14/2013 1:27:08 PM PDT

  • Characteristics and Large Bulk Density of the C-type Main-Belt Triple Asteroid (93) Minerva
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 14, 2013
    Posted on: 10/14/2013 1:25:58 PM PDT

  • Growing dust grains in protoplanetary discs - I. Radial drift with toy growth models
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 11, 2013
    Posted on: 10/11/2013 5:56:51 PM PDT

  • Physical Characterization of Warm Spitzer-observed Near-Earth Objects
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 9, 2013
    Posted on: 10/9/2013 8:26:53 PM PDT

  • UV to far-IR reflectance spectra of carbonaceous chondrites
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 8, 2012
    Posted on: 10/8/2013 2:22:09 PM PDT

  • Olivine-dominated Asteroids: Mineralogy and Origin
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 7, 2013
    Posted on: 10/7/2013 11:47:53 AM PDT

  • B612 Foundation CEO and Co-Founder Ed Lu on 60 Minutes This Sunday
    B612 Foundation - October 5, 2013
    Posted on: 10/5/2013 3:57:49 PM PDT

  • Assessment of the 2880 impact threat from asteroid (29075) 1950 DA
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 4, 2013
    Posted on: 10/4/2013 10:44:15 PM PDT

  • Asteroid Un-conference Hosted by B612 Foundation Today
    B612 Foundation - October 1, 2013
    Posted on: 10/1/2013 3:49:41 PM PDT

  • The Geminid meteoroid stream as a potential meteorite dropper: a case study
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - September 26, 2013
    Posted on: 9/26/2013 2:17:06 PM PDT

  • Finding Very Small Near-Earth Asteroids using Synthetic Tracking
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - September 15, 2013
    Posted on: 9/15/2013 2:16:17 PM PDT

  • Will Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) Survive Perihelion?
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - September 12, 2013
    Posted on: 9/12/2013 1:01:43 PM PDT

  • Outgassing Behavior of C/2012 S1 (ISON) From September 2011 to June 2013
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - September 12, 2013
    Posted on: 9/12/2013 1:00:02 PM PDT

  • NASA Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis Workshop
    NASA HQ - August 21, 2013
    Posted on: 8/21/2013 2:52:15 PM PDT

  • NEO News (08/09/13) Planetary Defense Conference Postings
    Ames Research Center - August 9, 2013
    Posted on: 8/9/2013 7:20:36 PM PDT

  • NASA Completes First Internal Review of Concepts for Asteroid Redirect Mission
    - July 31, 2013
    Posted on: 7/31/2013 3:31:32 PM PDT

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