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“One strike can reshape our world, and the only thing that can stop it is science.” Credit: IMAX Those are the opening lines of “Asteroid Hunters,” an IMAX film narrated by Daisy Ridley of Star Wars fame. If the June 17 screening near NASA’s Ames Research Center is any guide, “Asteroid Hunter” achieves its goal of highlighting the threat asteroids pose and the opportunity to veer dangerously toward Earth. At the end of the film, an audience consisting mostly of people from NASA Ames and related organizations discusses the ongoing efforts to search for near-Earth objects (NEOs), asteroids, or comets within about 45 million kilometers of Earth’s orbit. In particular, they expressed concern over the fate of NASA’s NEO Surveyor space telescope. NASA’s 2023 budget proposal released in March called for a cut in the NEO Surveyor space telescope budget from about $143 million in 2022 to less than $40 million in 2023. The budget plan, which would delay the launch of the space telescope by two

Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny dust grains can jump up and down the asteroid’s surface, according to a new study from physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder. That popcorn-like effect could even help tidy up smaller asteroids, causing them to lose dust and look rough and craggy from space. The researchers published their results July 11 in the journal Natural Astronomy . Their findings could help scientists better understand how asteroids change shape over time – and how these objects migrate through space, sometimes bringing them very close to Earth, said Hsiang-Wen (Sean) Hsu, lead author of the study. the. “The more fine-grained material, or regolith, these asteroids lost, the faster they migrated,” said Hsu, a research associate in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder. The research started with some curious photos. In 2020, a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx traveled more than 1 billion miles to meet the asteroid (191055)

The rugged surface of the asteroid Bennu as seen by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Like corn kernels popping up in a frying pan, tiny dust grains can jump up and down the asteroid’s surface, according to a new study from physicists at CU Boulder. That popcorn-like effect could even help tidy up smaller asteroids, causing them to lose dust and look rough and craggy from space. The researchers published their results July 11 in the journal Natural Astronomy . Their findings could help scientists better understand how asteroids change shape over time — and how these objects migrate through space, sometimes bringing them very close to Earth, said Hsiang-Wen (Sean) Hsu, lead author of the study. the. “The more fine-grained material, or regolith, these asteroids lost, the faster they migrated,” said Hsu, a research associate in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder. Th

Like corn kernels popping up in a frying pan, tiny dust grains can jump up and down the asteroid’s surface, according to a new study from physicists at CU Boulder. That popcorn-like effect could even help tidy up smaller asteroids, causing them to lose dust and look rough and craggy from space. The researchers published their results July 11 in the journal Nature Astronomy. Their findings could help scientists better understand how asteroids change shape over time and how these objects migrate through space, sometimes bringing them very close to Earth, said Hsiang-Wen (Sean) Hsu, lead author of the study. . “The more fine-grained material, or regolith, these asteroids are lost, the faster they migrate,” said Hsu, a research associate in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder. The research started with some curious photos. In 2020, a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx traveled more than 1 billion miles to meet the asteroid (191055) Bennu, which is about as