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Three days after touching down on asteroid Bennu hundreds of millions of miles away from home, NASA said its Osiris-Rex spacecraft had become so engorged with asteroid fragments that debris is now leaking from its storage compartment. “We’re almost a victim of our own success here,” said Dante Lauretta, lead …

The first three of the day’s five space rocks have mercifully passed the Earth by without incident, according to the Asteroid Watch Widget that tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to our planet. 2020 TJ6, measuring 10m in diameter or roughly half a bowling lane, passed …

With an estimated diameter of 2 meters (6.5 feet, or roughly one ‘refrigerator’), the asteroid known as 2018VP1 is just “not big enough to cause harm” when it buzz-cuts within 5,000 kilometres of Earth on November 2, celebrity scientist deGrasse Tyson wrote on Twitter and Instagram.  So if the World …

  The American research apparatus of the OSIRIS-REx reached the asteroid Bennu in early December, 2018 and reached its orbit on December 31. The main goal of the mission is selection and return a soil sample from the surface of the asteroid. The arrival of the capsule with the sample …

Japanese space probe “Hayabusa-2” held for the second successful mission for the collection of soil samples from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. We have previously reported that the unit was transmitted to Earth new images of small celestial bodies in the course of this operation. Although the first animated …

the Japanese aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA) reported on the successful undermining, was made on Friday on the asteroid’s surface Ryugu.   JAXA The purpose of the blasting is produced using a special block, which is a copper projectile weighing 2 kg of explosives, which was sent interplanetary probe “Hayabusa-2”, was …

This confirms confirms the hypothesis that water once fell on the Earth due to asteroid collision. Researchers from the University of Arizona found traces of water in the soil samples of the asteroid Itokawa brought back by the Japanese probe Hayabusa in 2010. Team Arizona has studied five of the …

There are new detailed images. Part of the crater in the Equatorial region of Bennu. The received March 28, PolyCam camera from a distance of 3.5 kilometers. The width of the picture is 49,4 meters. A small bright stone in the upper left side of the frame has a length …

The asteroid was discovered on March 26. From 29 April to 3 may, NASA will hold a conference Planetary Defense Conference, where scientists will come up with a plan to save the planet from a collision with a hypothetical asteroid. The conference organizers propose a hypothetical situation in which Land …

The Japanese space Agency (JAXA) released footage collection of soil samples Ryugu asteroid (162173) Ryugu spacecraft “Hayabusa-2” after the last shot in the small celestial body pathammavong tantalum slug. Japanese space Agency noted the success of the works and added that the mission of the unit ends. The mission specialists …