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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

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NASA Planetary Science Division director Lori Glaze, left, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot, and DART program scientist Tom Statler speak during a media briefing about the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), at NASA headquarters on October 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 4, 2024, 12:57 pm
A scientist helps save the world from asteroids. What would the Midrash say?
Addressing Boston’s Vilna Shul as part of its Lifesavers Speaker Series, Dr. Nancy Chabot shows how collaboration in the emerging field of planetary defense proves a rabbinic adage
By Rich Tenorio
This Dec. 24, 1968, file photo made available by NASA shows the Earth behind the surface of the moon during the Apollo 8 mission (William Anders/NASA via AP, File)
September 20, 2024, 10:17 am
Asteroid set to temporarily become Earth’s ‘second moon’
Tiny asteroid will be pulled in by gravity between Sep. 29 and Nov. 25, however will not be discernible via basic telescopes; celestial object expected to return only in 2055
By ToI Staff
An artist's impression of a large asteroid impacting at Chicxulub on the Mexican coastline, which caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago, with the planet Mars and asteroid bodies in the background, in this image obtained by Reuters on August 14, 2024. (Mark Garlick/Handout via Reuters)
August 17, 2024, 11:24 am
Asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter, scientists show
Researchers publish findings that used an innovative sample analysis technique to confirm assumptions about the apocalyptic culprit that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago
By Lucie AUBOURG
In this image from video provided by NASA, technicians in a clean room examine the sample return capsule from NASA's Osiris-Rex mission after it landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020. (NASA via AP)
September 26, 2023, 3:04 am
NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space, 4.5 billion years old, land on Earth
Samples taken to lab for careful examination after release from spacecraft at conclusion of seven-year journey
By Marcia Dunn
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins, APL/Steve Gribben)
October 12, 2022, 2:29 am
NASA: Spacecraft knocked asteroid far off course in 1st test of planetary defense
Space agency says it successfully changed object’s orbit in test last month, exceeding expectations in a proof-of-concept for future threats to life on Earth
By Issam Ahmed
A NASA spacecraft beams images of an asteroid to crew on the ground, before striking the asteroid 7 million miles from Earth, September 26, 2022. (Screenshot)
September 26, 2022, 10:00 pm
NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in first ever test of planetary defense
Space agency aims to alter orbit of rock by smashing craft, known as DART, into its surface, in venture hitherto only attempted in science fiction
By Agencies
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard from Space Launch Complex 4E, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, November 23, 2021. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
November 24, 2021, 10:35 am
In test to save Earth, NASA launches spacecraft to nudge asteroid off course
Planetary defense experiment aims to slam DART vehicle into rock, adjusting its path, in feasibility test of deflecting other objects that might head catastrophically toward planet
By Agencies
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins, APL/Steve Gribben)
November 23, 2021, 2:29 am
NASA to smash satellite into asteroid in test of plan to save Earth from destruction
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) set to launch Wednesday; will let scientists see if it’s possible to ‘nudge’ an incoming asteroid from a path that could threaten the planet
By Chris Lefkow
Aseel Nama (Technion)
April 11, 2021, 10:30 am
NASA names asteroids after Israeli student who found them
Aseel Nama says taking part in monthlong search project was her ‘dream’; hers was the only 1-member team allowed, of 116 total
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An asteroid falling toward planet Earth (dottedhippo; iStock by Getty Images)
March 28, 2021, 1:52 am
Earth safe from asteroid Apophis for 100 years, NASA says
A previously flagged potentially hazardous encounter in 2068 has now been ruled out as dangerous
By AP and ToI Staff
This optical microscope photo provided December 24, 2020, by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows soil samples, seen inside C compartment of the capsule brought back by Hayabusa2, in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. (JAXA via AP)
December 24, 2020, 3:26 pm
Japan brings home asteroid chips from millions of miles away
Hayabusa2 got charcoal-like samples last year from two locations on the asteroid Ryugu and dropped them in the Australian outback
By Mari Yamaguchi
A small capsule dropped by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, concealed in a container box, arrives at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's research facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, December 8, 2020. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP)
December 15, 2020, 12:57 pm
Japan delights in asteroid soil samples
Scientists say country’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought back gases and hoard of pebbles from its mission to Ryugu
By Mari Yamaguchi
A small capsule dropped by Japans Hayabusa2 spacecraft in a container box arrives at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's research facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo on December 8, 2020. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP)
December 8, 2020, 1:34 pm
Capsule with asteroid samples arrives in Japan for research
Hayabusa2 spacecraft released capsule Saturday from 220,000 kilometers away, ending 6-year, 5.2 billion-kilometer journey
By Mari Yamaguchi
Illustrative: An Atlas Centaur 7 rocket on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, September 20, 1966. (Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection/San Diego Air and Space Museum via AP)
October 11, 2020, 5:50 pm
Fake asteroid? NASA expert identifies mystery object as old rocket
Paul Chodas says he believes object that is set to be captured by earth’s gravity is in fact Centaur rocket from failed Surveyor 2 moon mission 54 years ago
By Marcia Dunn
This image from video made available by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies shows the path of asteroid 2020 SW as it safely passes Earth on Sept. 24, 2020 (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
September 24, 2020, 3:02 pm
School bus-sized asteroid to zoom by Earth, closer than many satellites
By space standards, Asteroid 2020 SW is pretty puny and will safely pass Earth on Thursday, NASA says
By Marcia Dunn
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