... Comets, Asteroids, Meteors, and Meteorites . The Sun. ... Web . Resources . Contact Us . Asteroid Angles : . ... figuring out the angle by which an asteroid headed for Earth needs to be deflected ...
... This Month's Project: (re)discovering the asteroid Vesta . Observing Guidelines . ... found another 300 of these roving objects, called asteroids ; today, 7,000 are known ...
... Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... 24 + 4) /10 = 2.8 . 2.1-3.5 . asteroids . (48 + 4) /10 = 5.2 . 5.2 . Jupiter . ... of years later, when Vesta and Juno (smaller asteroids) were found in similar orbits ...
... students use two views of the asteroid taken at different locations to measure the parallax and distance to the asteroid ... Combining this result with the angular speed of the asteroid from part one yields the tangential velocity of the asteroid. ...
... ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF AN ASTEROID IMPACT . ... Davis paints a view of what a large asteroid might look like as it hits the Earth ... Just such an asteroid is thought to have hit the Earth 65 million years ago ...
... We'll look at five topics inspired by Dr. Jenniskens' comments: meteors (shooting stars) and meteor showers; meteorites; comets, asteroids, and hybrid objects; and the discovery of the fragments of asteroid 2008TC3. ...