Comets and Asteroids Archive
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The Truth About the “September 2015 Asteroid Impact”
Posted on June 29, 2015 | 759 CommentsMaybe you have seen one of the alarming videos or emails circulating around the internet claiming that the End is Nigh. The claim is that an enormous dinosaur-killer of an […] -
10 Lessons From ESA’s Comet Mission
Posted on April 10, 2015 | No CommentsIn November 2014, the European Space AgencyòÀÙs washing-machine-sized investigation and analysis lander lab Philae, did something that no other automated probe had ever done before, it successfully landed on a […] -
Dawn at Ceres
Posted on January 20, 2015 | No CommentsNASAòÀÙs Dawn Space Craft is already a success story. It was launched on board a Delta IIˆà rocket in 2007, has spent 14 months investigating the asteroid Vesta, is using […] -
Comet Lovejoy is on the Way
Posted on December 23, 2014 | No CommentsComet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) was discovered in August 2014. Observers in the southern Hemisphere could see it throughout the last quarter of 2014. By December 2014 the comet could be […] -
Rosetta: Exploring a Comet
Posted on October 30, 2014 | 10 CommentsOn 2March 2004 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched an ambitious and exciting robotic explorer into space, and you probably have heard its quite pretty name mentioned a lot lately. […] -
VP113 Comes Out of the Darkness
Posted on April 2, 2014 | 4 CommentsOne of the latest members of the Solar System to be discovered, 2012 VP113 is a tiny isolated world in the outer Solar System. ItòÀÙs attracting attention as it could […]