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Showing posts with label Asteroids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asteroids. Show all posts

Thursday, August 8, 2013

The three brightest asteroids

In the next few weeks will have to the perfect opportunity to chance the three brightest asteroids in the sky in the middle of stargazing. These cosmic objects are small in size, but quite bright. Not many amateur astronomers could see them move across the sky. But in the next few weeks, all of us will have the great opportunity to see a flight of three asteroids - Flora, Juno and Iris in the night sky.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

A new calculate of potentially dangerous asteroids

Comments approved out by the Wide Field Infrared Explorer to Survey (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, for its acronym), NASA, have yielded the best on record count Today the population of potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system. Also known as "PHAs" (acronym for Potentially Hazardous English Asteroids), these asteroids have orbits within about eight million kilometers (five million miles) from Earth's orbit and are large enough to survive passing through the Earth's atmosphere and cause damage on a regional,

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Planets


Spitzer will revise some of the known planets and their moons, and comets, asteroids and dust spread throughout the solar system. The Centre will employ a significant portion of his time studying circumstellar disks (that surround the stars) of dust and gas found in the nearby stars and thought to eventually form planetary systems 'extra solar' (outside our Solar System) .