Jay TateNASA spacecraft finds that Ceres is full of water.
Asteroids might look dry and barren, but the Solar System’s biggest asteroid — Ceres — is chock full of water, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has found.
“It’s just oozing,” says Thomas Prettyman, a nuclear engineer at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson,
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Jay TateNASA is certainly not in the business of spreading panic over asteroid strikes – every time one comes close, we see yet another press release telling us that all known ‘potentially hazardous asteroids’ have less than a 0.01 percent chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years.
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Jay TateThe United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is pleased to announce that the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has proclaimed that International Asteroid Day will be observed globally on 30 June every year. The decision was made during the 71st session of the UNGA on 6 December after a proposal by the Association of Space Explorers was endorsed by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) during its 59th session in June.
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Jay TateAfter the meeting of the ESA Council at Ministerial Level last weekend, ESA Director General Jan Woerner made the following statement:
There was one aspect which detracted from the otherwise positive mood: AIM (short for Asteroid Impact Mission) failed to get the financial support it needed.
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Jay TateA team of astronomers have obtained observations of the smallest asteroid – with a diameter of only two meters (six feet) – ever characterized in detail. The asteroid, named 2015 TC25, is also one of the brightest near-Earth asteroids ever discovered, reflecting 60 percent of the sunlight that falls on it.
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