Weird Asteroid Itokawa Has a Dual Personality

ASTEROIDS, METEORS & METEORITES Weird Asteroid Itokawa Has a Dual Personality 25143 Itokawa is a relatively small near-Earth asteroid that was visited by the Japanese Habayusa spacecraft in 2005. It has also been monitored by Stephen Lowry of the University…
Asteroid ‘could have sent life to Mars’

Researchers calculated the number of potentially life-bearing rocks that have been ejected from our planet to other bodies in the Solar System, and found the chances were “better than 50/50” that life could have made the journey. Writing in the…
Asteroid may show evidence of alien mine

Alien Mines Rather than looking for aliens who use interstellar radio signals to say “hi,” an alternative search strategy is simply to spy on any mega-engineering projects that an advanced civilization might be undertaking. Veteran SETI astronomer Jill Tarter calls…
Giant asteroid to hit earth in 2068

NASA report confirms asteroid is likely to hit earth in 50 years The 325-meter (1,066-foot) asteroid 99942 Apophis, that will safely fly by the Earth in 2029 and 2036, may strike the planet in 2068, according to an article published…
Massive asteroid to shave past Earth

  An asteroid about half the size of a football field will zoom past Earth on  Feb. 15, closer than the man-made satellites that power GPS, says NASA. “This is a record-setting close approach,” Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth …