Reg readers save the planet from offshored asteroids
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Knickers to the lot of you Is this the end for IT peeps in the UK? Analyst Bob McDowell certainly seems to think so. Not a cheerful subject for readers of El Reg, and understandably once you'd read his article, you had a few things you wanted to get off your chests:â¦
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It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets. A NASA telescope recently discovered evidence that
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Despite all the reports about SETI discovering a likely signal from an alien civilisation, you shouldn&#39;t squint skywards just yet looking for a spherical disc from which little green men will hop out.
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By Kates, Robert W  Most readers of Environment appreciate that global warming is an extraordinary risk.
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It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets. A NASA (news - web sites) telescope
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Saves planet one lightbulb at a time For the second week in a row the Guardian has turned the power of the Internet onto the problems of the planet - at this rate, it surely can't be long before we're all saved. Last week editor Alan Rusbridger unleashed 15 million readers on Africa, this week environment writer Leo Hickman is trying to shut down coal-fired power stations.â¦
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This summer, NASA will launch a robotic probe to visit two stange and giant asteroids -- one is covered with ice while the other may have been blasted by an ancient supernova. The tales these asteroids tell may reveal the true beginnings of our solar system.
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We have seen it all in the movies. Asteroids coming towards the earth promising devastation of the kind we have experienced before.
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When I was an astronomy student at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, pioneer asteroid hunters Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and her husband Kees van Houten were about to retire, after very fruitful careers. Their legacy was the discovery of over 2000 asteroids, of which some 1800 yielded orbits, in collaboration with Prof. Tom Gehrels of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona. ...
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Welsh MP Lembit Opik calls for the UK government to embrace an action plan to reduce the asteroid threat to Earth.
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For the very first time, astronomers have witnessed the speeding up of an asteroid's rotation, and have shown that it is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never seen before.
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The Sun may have captured thousands or even millions of asteroids from another planetary system during an encounter more than four billion years ago, astronomers are reporting.
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By Mike Swain EXPERTS have called for a pounds 150 million &quot;Armageddon-style&quot; space mission to deflect an asteroid which may be heading for Earth. Astronomers believe the asteroid Apophis has a one in 45,000 chance of hitting the planet on April 13, 2036.
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The planning and operations that must occur twice each day -- between the time when &quot;yester-sol&#39;s&quot; data reach Earth until commands for the next sol&#39;s activities are sent off to the rovers -- is becoming more efficient.
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Space watchers were set for a rare treat on Tuesday after US space authorities released pictures of a huge asteroid they said would zoom past Earth within sight of amateur telescopes.
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It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets.
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Studies confirm how sunlight alters the motion of bodies, such as asteroids, throughout the Solar System.