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Cleaning out files and saw this rare find-- The Asteroid caterpillar, the Goldenrod Hooded Owlet Moth's caterpillar, Cucullia asteroides. Worth a second look.
127 Johanna is a main belt asteroid that is about 76 miles wide. Currently, it is slowly moving through the constellation Auriga at magnitude 11.8. From Wikipedia: Johanna (minor planet designation: 127 Johanna) is a large, dark main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on 5 November 1872, and is believed to be named after Joan of Arc.
The animated GIF shows the movement of Johanna over 30 minutes by blinking two images.
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro running at -20C, 1 x 120 second exposures, GAIN 200, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using SharpCap v3.2. Image date: January 22, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
A small asteroid has been caught in the process of spinning so fast it’s throwing off material, according to new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.
Images from Hubble show two narrow, comet-like tails of dusty debris streaming from the asteroid (6478) Gault. Each tail represents an episode in which the asteroid gently shed its material — key evidence that Gault is beginning to come apart.
Discovered in 1988, the 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer-wide) asteroid has been observed repeatedly, but the debris tails are the first evidence of disintegration. Gault is located 214 million miles (344 million kilometers) from the Sun. Of the roughly 800,000 known asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, astronomers estimate that this type of event in the asteroid belt is rare, occurring roughly once a year.
Watching an asteroid become unglued gives astronomers the opportunity to study the makeup of these space rocks without sending a spacecraft to sample them.
For more information, please visit:
www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-watches-spun-up-...
Credits: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory)
Dr. Holdren (left), Administrator Bolden (center) and Dr. Michele Gates (right) discuss the ARM mission during a live NASA TV briefing. Behind them is a mockup of robotic capture module for the Asteroid Redirect Mission.
More info: Asteroid Redirect Mission Update – On Sept. 14, 2016, NASA provided an update on the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) and how it contributes to the agency’s journey to Mars and protection of Earth. The presentation took place in the Robotic Operations Center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. John P. Holdren, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and NASA’s ARM Program Director, Dr. Michele Gates discussed the latest update regarding the mission. They explained the mission’s scientific and technological benefits and how ARM will demonstrate technology for defending Earth from potentially hazardous asteroids. The briefing aired live on NASA TV and the agency’s website. For more information about ARM go to www.nasa.gov/arm.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Debbie Mccallum
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I found this asteroid in the data for my recent M100 galaxy image.
It took a little figuring out how to identify it, but this is Asteroid 1999 XM6.
Magnitude 17.6, travelling at 0.55 arcsec/min.
Poster showing a comparison of images from planetary surfaces ordered by increasing complexity of the surface processes.
Image shows the surfaces of Asteroid Itokawa, the Moon, Venus, Mars, Titan, and Earth. All images show a view of nearby rocks to the distant horizon. The amount of surface modification evident of each of the bodies increases roughly from left to right.
From the the rubble pile asteroid of Itokawa, the cratered plains of the moon, the volcanic basalts of Venus, the basalt filled craters of Mars, the eroded icy cobbles of Titan to the great oceans of Earth, a variety of surfaces in our solar system is represented.
Image Credits:
Asteroid Itokawa [Hayabusa]: ISAS / JAXA / Gordan Ugarkovic
Moon [Apollo 17]: NASA
Venus [Venera 14]: IKI / Don Mitchell / Ted Stryk / Mike Malaska
Mars [Mars Exploration Rover Spirit]: NASA / JPL / Cornell / Mike Malaska
Titan [Cassini Huygens]: ESA / NASA / JPL / University of Arizona
Earth: Mike Malaska
Composition by Mike Malaska
The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security -- Regolith Explorer spacecraft (OSIRIS-REx) will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu, and bring a sample back to Earth for study. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.
OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for launch in late 2016. As planned, the spacecraft will reach its asteroid target in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.
Watch the full video: youtu.be/gtUgarROs08
Learn more about NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and the making of Bennu’s Journey: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/bennus-journey/
More information on the OSIRIS-REx mission is available at:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html
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The Asteroid Jumper is M:Tron’s second attempt at a VTOL, the first being the Particle Ionizer. Its nimble size allows for tight squeezes, while it’s adjustable weight distribution track magnetizers allows for a variety of cargo container sizes.
As of recent, all Asteroid Jumpers have been retrofitted with dual short range laser beams due to a rise in Blacktron activity within the shipping lanes. Because of this the ship line has been reclassified as a “light fighter craft with cargo capability”.
This is the 2nd Starfighter for the M:Tron team in Round 4 of the Starfighter Telephone Game.
Asteroid Mining Ship
Another creation I’ve had sitting around for months that I’m just now taking the time to photograph (albeit a hasty photo shoot once again)
@lego #lego #legomoc #legospace #space #spaceship #spacemining #legominifigures #legorobot
The unique capabilities of the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have enabled it to obtain the sharpest images of a double asteroid as it flew by Earth on 25 May. While this double asteroid was not itself a threatening object, scientists used the opportunity to rehearse the response to a hazardous Near-Earth Object (NEO), proving that ESO’s front-line technology could be critical in planetary defence.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1910a/
Credit:
ESO
This image visualizes the discovery of asteroids from 1801 to 2020. The Solar System is shown in a logarithmic scale to allow both the main asteroid belt and Kuiper objects to be shown. Asteroids are shown in the position of their perihelion. This makes it easier to separate the various families.
I also plotted the histogram of how many minor planets were discovered each year, the semi-major axis, and excentricity on the right panels. The left panels show the excentricity and inclination as a function of semi-major axis, this is again to show how the various asteroid families were defined based on their orbits.
Data source: www.minorplanetcenter.net/
Youtube visualization: youtu.be/QOdrRX-IScc
A caterpillar of the Asteroid moth, Cucullia asteroides, also known as the Goldenrod Hooded Owlet. Seen on the Spine Road in Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto, Ontario.
Benjamin Reed, deputy program manager of NASA’s Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, shows Dr. Holdren the technologies that NASA is developing for the Restore-L satellite servicing mission. NASA will launch the Restore-L servicer in 2020 to refuel a live satellite and demonstrate that a suite of satellite-servicing technologies are operational.
More info: Asteroid Redirect Mission Update – On Sept. 14, 2016, NASA provided an update on the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) and how it contributes to the agency’s journey to Mars and protection of Earth. The presentation took place in the Robotic Operations Center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. John P. Holdren, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and NASA’s ARM Program Director, Dr. Michele Gates discussed the latest update regarding the mission. They explained the mission’s scientific and technological benefits and how ARM will demonstrate technology for defending Earth from potentially hazardous asteroids. The briefing aired live on NASA TV and the agency’s website. For more information about ARM go to www.nasa.gov/arm.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Debbie Mccallum
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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1950s style depiction of mining an asteroid - probably for precious metals.
May be back on the cards in the 21st Century
The Asteroid Jumper is M:Tron’s second attempt at a VTOL, the first being the Particle Ionizer. Its nimble size allows for tight squeezes, while it’s adjustable weight distribution track magnetizers allows for a variety of cargo container sizes.
As of recent, all Asteroid Jumpers have been retrofitted with dual short range laser beams due to a rise in Blacktron activity within the shipping lanes. Because of this the ship line has been reclassified as a “light fighter craft with cargo capability”.
This is the 2nd Starfighter for the M:Tron team in Round 4 of the Starfighter Telephone Game.
Asteroid 6478 (Gault) on January 13th showing a trail of debris from a probable collision that took place back in November. Image taken using one of iTelescopes 20" Planewave telescopes (T30).
Been working on this the past couple of days, but I've had the tank on my desk since July. I really like how the ship turned out, except I wanted to replace the 1x4 side tiles with black wings (the ones that starts as a 1x4 and go to a 1x2).
I wish I didn't have to tilt the tank back so far.
This is a composite of 21x1min exposures of the near earth asteroid passing earth. Its closest approach brought it just 1.2million Km from earth.
. . fly by or "Ghosts in the Machine".
Actually, tho' I've been checking in, (invisibly; have left very few faves, comments), I've missed Flickr, but my 3 kids are older, rightly more demanding of my time yet free time somehow seems less, and all the modern mobile smart technology that's supposed to free you up and give more leisure time seems ever and ever to consume you in being tied to desktops, laptops, ios, emails and prompt response requirements, apps . . . and when does it all end!??
Oh well.
Just a post to let you know, I'm still here, you're still there, and I still do look, and many have migrated to Google+, and all the other media, while others, like me, have succombed to trying to juggle time for all that one wants to do.
Cheers y'all.
Dust ejecta at Asteroid (65803) Didymos from the DART mission impact onto its moonlet Dimorphos (invisible here) in the r' band from 25-Oct-2022 observed by NEXT, Xingming Observatory. Average (left) vs median (right) stacks from 93*30 s individual exposures. Airmass ~1.6-1.4. rH = 1.014 au, Delta = 0.098 au, phase = 75.8 deg, solar elongation = 98.7 deg, PsAng = 282.3 deg, PsAMV = 218.7 deg, PlAng = 23.2 deg.
Benjamin Reed (right), deputy program manager of NASA’s Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, shows Dr. Holdren the technologies that NASA is developing for the Restore-L satellite servicing mission. NASA will launch the Restore-L servicer in 2020 to refuel a live satellite and demonstrate that a suite of satellite-servicing technologies are operational.
More info: Asteroid Redirect Mission Update – On Sept. 14, 2016, NASA provided an update on the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) and how it contributes to the agency’s journey to Mars and protection of Earth. The presentation took place in the Robotic Operations Center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. John P. Holdren, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and NASA’s ARM Program Director, Dr. Michele Gates discussed the latest update regarding the mission. They explained the mission’s scientific and technological benefits and how ARM will demonstrate technology for defending Earth from potentially hazardous asteroids. The briefing aired live on NASA TV and the agency’s website. For more information about ARM go to www.nasa.gov/arm.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Debbie Mccallum
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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The Etton Conglomerate keeps most of it's holdings in the remoter regions of the Goodfellow Cluster where there is little or no competition from FAE Member companies. These regions are, however, notorious hot spots for pirate activity.
Etton Security is usually more than a match for these marauders, but recently their newer mechs and experienced pilots have been increasingly reposted to the Conglomerate's headquarters in the asteroid belt of the Oberon System, so those left with the responsibility of protecting miners and freighter convoys find themselves ill-prepared for the task.
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All Credit for the AT-07 Bandit goes to Aardvark17, and much credit is due! It's a super fun frame to play with in oh, so many ways. The inner frame is elegant and simple, very stable on it's feet (even when heavily loaded with gear!) and has a distinctive and fun posture. I hadn't even finished building the first one and already knew that I needed a strike team. I even devoted almost all of my lavender pieces to the project!
What I'm saying is that you need to build some Bandits. They're aces.
of course, I couldn’t build an asteroid field without flying the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy through it! Fortunately the Microfighters version of the Millennium Falcon fit perfectly between the belts.
This is a part of a small future series of MOC's that can be called Astrominers. A realistic point of view to mining in space. This is some kind of mobile drilling platform. Two turnable engines, allow to move back and forward. 3 types of drilling heads are available. Short range and low life support capability means it should work together with lardger ships.
3d Cross-view - View the two images straight on and slightly cross eyes and the centre image which appears will be seen in 3d
Original clip composed by NASA in October 2020. 200 million miles from earth.
The Asteroid Jumper is M:Tron’s second attempt at a VTOL, the first being the Particle Ionizer. Its nimble size allows for tight squeezes, while it’s adjustable weight distribution track magnetizers allows for a variety of cargo container sizes.
As of recent, all Asteroid Jumpers have been retrofitted with dual short range laser beams due to a rise in Blacktron activity within the shipping lanes. Because of this the ship line has been reclassified as a “light fighter craft with cargo capability”.
This is the 2nd Starfighter for the M:Tron team in Round 4 of the Starfighter Telephone Game.