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Whack 'em or nuke 'em: How to deflect a killer asteroid

Phil Plait

Nov 20, 2019

Artwork depicting NASA's Deep Impact mission, which slammed a 370-kilogram copper slug into the comet Tempel 1, to test the concept of pushing dangerous space rocks into safe orbits. Credit: NASA

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Hayabusa2 is leaving the asteroid Ryugu and heading back to Earth

Phil Plait

Nov 14, 2019

Artwork showing Hayabusa2 arriving at the tiny asteroid Ryugu. Credit: Akihiro Ikeshita

Tag: Bad Astronomy

NASA is going to perform an 'autopsy' on a dead planet

Elizabeth Rayne

Jun 17, 2019

NASA Psyche mission

There’s an asteroid coming Deep Impact-levels of close to Earth

Elizabeth Rayne

May 3, 2019

Yes, Japan just bombed an asteroid

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 5, 2019

JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft bombing a crater into the asteroid Ryugu

We’re more doomed than we thought if an asteroid comes for us

Elizabeth Rayne

Mar 7, 2019

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

No, 'Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship. It might be even weirder.

Phil Plait

Feb 18, 2019

Artwork depicting what ‘Oumuamua might look like; observations indicate it’s highly elongated. But where did it come from? Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Could smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid save humanity in the near future?

Elizabeth Rayne

Jan 3, 2019

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: spiral galaxy

A weirdly gorgeous galaxy and an interplanetary interloper

Phil Plait

Dec 28, 2018

An image of the galaxy NGC 3981 has an interloper: An asteroid passing between us and it, streaked due to the long exposure and colored due to different filters being used. Credit: ESO

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: spiral galaxy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Deep freeze impact: Scientists find a *huge* asteroid impact crater under Greenland’s ice

Phil Plait

Nov 14, 2018

Incoming! Somewhat fanciful artwork depicting the asteroid responsible for the Hiawatha impact crater asteroid breaking up high above the Earth before slamming into Greenland. Credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Cryospheric Sciences Lab, NASA/GSFC

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Hayabusa 2

Another robot lands on Ryugu

Phil Plait

Oct 8, 2018

An image from the MASCOT lander as it headed down to the asteroid Ryugu. Note the shadow of the lander to the lower left (this is reversed from the original image to get light source coming from above, so rocks don’t look like pits). Credit: JAXA/DLR/CNES

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Hayabusa 2

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Video from an asteroid’s surface!

Phil Plait

Oct 1, 2018

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Robots are now hopping around on the surface of an asteroid

Phil Plait

Sep 24, 2018

An image caught mid-bounce of the MINERVAII-1 A rover showing the surface of the asteroid Ryugu (left) and a reflection of sunlight (right). Credit: JAXA

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

A bright meteor over Greenland didn't spark nuclear war. [Phew]

Phil Plait

Aug 3, 2018

The Chelyabinsk, Russia fireball on Feb. 15, 2013, seen from a dashboard camera. Credit: Евгений Славенков via YouTube

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Ryugu, front to back

Phil Plait

Jul 16, 2018

The asteroid Ryugu from 20 kilometers away. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu and AIST

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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