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Did Asteroids Bring Water to Earth?
Video ScienceTake
The New York Times 15 May 2018
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtoGxZt42_0
space rock / meteor / asteroid
UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/science/
meteors
2025
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/
meteorite-strike-video-canada
2024
https://www.reuters.com/science/
asteroid-that-doomed-dinosaurs-originated-beyond-jupiter-2024-08-15/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/
science/asteroid-earth-nasa.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/01/
asteroid-near-earth-nasa
2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/
1218448190/a-massive-star-called-betelgeuse-will-be-briefly-obscured-
by-an-asteroid-monday-
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/03/
mini-moon-asteroid-discovered-dinkinesh-nasa
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/30/
dust-drove-dinosaurs-extinction-after-asteroid-impact-scientists-say
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/
1187815750/ryugu-hayabusa-stardust-sprinkled-asteroid
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/25/
1166067027/asteroid-earth-moon-city-killer-nasa
2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/
science/asteroid-planet-killer.html
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/26/
1124340144/nasa-dart-shove-asteroid-first-test-planetary-defense
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/
arts/television/dont-look-up-climate-change.html
2021
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/
1061852982/dont-look-up-is-an-environmental-satire-that-squanders-its-resources
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/22/
1056995884/in-a-first-test-of-its-planetary-defense-efforts-nasas-going-to-shove-an-asteroi
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/
science/meteorite-botswana-asteroid.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/
986664216/what-is-that-in-the-sky-floridians-catch-meteors-close-brush-with-earth
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/
world/europe/meteor-uk.html
2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/05/
943453573/a-capsule-containing-bits-of-an-asteroid-is-plummeting-to-earth
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/
science/exploring-the-solar-system.html - July 30, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/
science/alien-asteroids-orbits.html
2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/
science/osiris-rex-nasa-asteroid-bennu.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/
science/chicxulub-asteroid-ocean-acid.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/
718296681/this-week-
nasa-is-pretending-an-asteroid-is-on-its-way-to-smack-the-earth
2018
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/
614105843/asteroid-impact-that-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs-
also-caused-abrupt-global-warming
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=UtoGxZt42_0 -
NYT video - May 15, 2018
2017
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/12/
570206648/an-asteroid-gets-its-close-up-as-gemenids-light-up-the-sky
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/20/
559094041/orionid-meteor-shower-will-peak-overnight-with-best-show-before-dawn
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/11/
close-encounter-asteroid-2012-tc4-size-of-a-house-near-miss-with-earth
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/19/
524680317/an-asteroid-is-swinging-by-earth-today-for-its-closest-visit-in-400-years
2016
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/22/
503013290/scientists-say-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-made-earths-surface-act-like-liquid
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/30/
499751470/nasas-new-intruder-alert-system-spots-an-incoming-asteroid
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/25/
dinosaur-extinction-only-half-the-story-of-killer-asteroids-impact-plant-fossil
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/06/
476871766/geologists-find-clues-in-crater-left-by-dinosaur-killing-asteroid
2014
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/28/
dinosaurs-asteroid-bad-timing-killed-off-biodiversity-edinburgh-scientists
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/17/
asteroid-2000-em26-fly-close-earth-potentially-hazardous
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/22/
giant-asteroid-steam-ceres
2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/
science/space/more-large-asteroid-strikes-are-likely-scientists-find.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/06/chelyabinsk-meteor-russia
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/16/
hambleton-chelyabinsk-meteorite-auction-rob-elliott
http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/feb/15/asteroid-2012-da14-nasa-video
2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/25/asteroid-headed-for-earth-laser
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/tech-tycoons-asteroid-mining-venture
2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/
opinion/26schweickart.html
2005
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/dec/07/
spaceexploration.research
killer asteroids
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/
science/asteroid-earth-nasa.html
fireball meteor USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/
world/europe/meteor-uk.html
near-Earth asteroids > Bennu
- an asteroid that is a bit wider
than the Empire State Building is tall.
USA
OSIRIS-REX spacecraft / robotic probe
Two years from now,
after a 1.4 billion-mile journey
that will swing around the sun twice,
OSIRIS-REX will catch up to Earth.
The main spacecraft will not land,
but it will instead drop off a capsule
containing some precious bits of Bennu it has collected
— at least a couple of ounces
but more likely more than a pound of dirt and rubble.
Slowed by parachutes,
the 32-inch-wide capsule will land
on Sept. 24, 2023,
at the Utah Test and Training Range,
a vast, desolate expanse in the Great Salt Lake Desert.
(...)
Knowledge of this particular space rock
could also be useful
if Earth ever needs to defend itself against the asteroid.
Bennu belongs to a group
known as near-Earth asteroids
because their orbits cross that of Earth’s.
Late next century,
Bennu will repeatedly pass particularly near Earth.
Indeed, NASA calculates a slight but not zero chance
— 1-in-2,700 —
of Bennu hitting our planet between 2175 and 2199
with the energy of more than a billion tons of TNT.
That cataclysm might kill millions of people,
but it would not be large enough
to cause widespread mass extinctions.
OSIRIS-REX
— the name is a shortening of
Origins, Spectral Interpretation,
Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer —
launched in September 2016
and arrived at Bennu in December 2018.
Its observations included a surprise:
Bennu was shooting debris
from its surface into space.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/
science/nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/
science/nasa-osiris-rex.html
Ryugu,
a jet black asteroid roughly one mile wide,
which orbits the sun between Earth and Mars,
roughly 180 million miles from our planet.
(...)
After its launch in late 2014,
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft spent 3 1/2 years
getting into position by orbiting the sun.
After its arrival at Ryugu in 2018,
the craft first sent a lander to the surface
before making two trips
of its own to collect
material.
Before its second visit
to Ryugu's surface in 2019,
Hayabusa2 prepared a crater for itself
with plastic explosives.
On its return trip,
the capsule containing the sample
separated from Hayabusa2
more than 130,000 miles from Earth
— a distance that would get you
more than halfway from your home
to the moon.
And JAXA researchers are aiming to land the little pod
inside an area spanning about 40 square miles
in the Australian Outback.
As if that weren't enough,
they will also have to find the darn thing,
which is expected to contain material
weighing just one gram.
It's a search that is expected to require
at least five antennas, a helicopter
and the support of the Australian space
agency
and the country's military.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/05/
943453573/a-capsule-containing-bits-of-an-asteroid-is-plummeting-to-earth
asteroids called Centaurs
(...)
inhabit outer realms of the solar system
between Jupiter and Neptune
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/
science/alien-asteroids-orbits.html
Ceres
UK / USA
600 miles wide,
the largest of the
asteroids
between Mars and Jupiter.
(...)
a giant world of rock and ice
(...)
“Ceres has 38 percent of the area
of the continental United States.
It’s actually the
largest body
between the sun and Pluto
that a spacecraft has
not yet visited.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/science/
nasa-spacecraft-get-a-closer-look-at-pluto-and-ceres-whatever-they-may-be.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/06/
391028906/nasa-probe-to-arrive-at-dwarf-planet
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/01/
dawn-ceres-nasa-probe-enter-dwarf-planet-orbit
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/
science/nasa-spacecraft-get-a-closer-look-at-pluto-and-ceres-
whatever-they-may-be.html
asteroid
> (52768) 1998 OR2 UK
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/29/
asteroid-passing-earth-1998-or2-wednesday-near-4m-miles-
face-mask-fly-by
asteroid
> 2014 JO25
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/19/
524680317/an-asteroid-is-swinging-by-earth-today-for-its-closest-visit-in-400-years
asteroid > 2013 TV135
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2013/oct/18/
asteroid-2013-tv135-doomsday-again
asteroid > 2012 DA14
UK / USA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/15/
asteroid-misses-earth-meteor-strike
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/
opinion/sunday/beware-of-errant-asteroids.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/08/
asteroid-will-miss-earth-says-nasa
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2013/feb/07/
asteroid-earth-animation
asteroid mining
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2013/jan/23/
asteroid-mining-deep-space-industries
Asteroid mining:
how it might work –
interactive UK April 24, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/interactive/2012/apr/24/
asteroid-mining-how-work-interactive
asteroid's path
flyby
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/01/
asteroid-near-earth-nasa
a 390-metre wide asteroid
interstellar object
USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/12/
570167473/astronomers-want-to-know-
does-this-interstellar-visitor-have-a-message-for-us
meteorite / meteor
UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/
meteorite-strike-video-canada
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/
1045990641/meteorite-canada-british-columbia-bed
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/
science/exploring-the-solar-system.html - July 30, 2020
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/15/
482195719/scientists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-completely-new-kind-of-meteorite
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/24/
meteorite-moon-largest-lunar-impact-recorded
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/06/
chelyabinsk-meteor-russia
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/16/
hambleton-chelyabinsk-meteorite-auction-rob-elliott
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2013/may/18/
meteor-crashes-moons-surface-flash-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/15/
meaning-of-meteors
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/science/space/
size-of-blast-and-number-of-injuries-are-seen-as-rare-for-a-rock-from-space.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/
a-flash-in-russian-skies-as-inspiration-for-fantasy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/world/europe/
meteorite-fragments-are-said-to-rain-down-on-siberia.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/16/
hambleton-chelyabinsk-meteorite-auction-rob-elliott
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/datablog/interactive/2013/may/08/meteorites-2500bc-interactive
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/flashy-meteors-fall-on-us-too/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2013/feb/15/meteorite-explosion-russia-in-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2013/feb/16/russian-meteorite-scientists-search-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/15/meteorite-russia-key-questions-answered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/15/meteorite-footage-russia-dashcams
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jan/03/mars-meteor-water-sahara-analysis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2012/aug/10/
perseid-meteor-shower-astronomy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2011/jan/10/
science-weekly-podcast-meteors-ted-nield
Eta Aquariids meteor
shower USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/
science/eta-aquariids-meteor-shower.html
annual Perseid
meteor shower USA
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/12/
339924823/the-perseid-meteor-shower-due-to-shine-tonight
August 2013 >
The Perseids
the year's most spectacular meteor shower
for
viewers in the northern hemisphere
The Perseids were once part of comet
Swift-Tuttle.
At 27 kilometres across,
this is one of the largest.
It orbits the sun every 133 years
and last
passed by in 1992.
Whenever it approaches,
the heat of the sun disintegrates its ice,
creating a dusty tail
and replenishing the Perseid stream.
The Earth passes through this stream every
August,
sparking the meteor shower.
Each one of the meteors,
sometimes called shooting stars,
that you see is a tiny speck of dust as old
as the formation of Earth
and the other planets, 4.6bn years ago.
It burns with incandescent glory
because it has
hit our atmosphere
at a speed of 160,000 kilometres per hour
(100,000 miles per hour).
This creates a shockwave
that compresses a pocket of air
in front of the dust grain
and raises it to a temperature
of a few thousand degrees.
This is enough to burn up the dust
and create a
bright meteor.
Swift Tuttle is the largest object
to regularly pass Earth.
Its orbit is known well enough
for astronomers to believe
it does not pose a collision hazard
for at least the next 2,000 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2013/aug/09/
perseid-meteor-shower-2013-best-view
https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2013/aug/09/
perseid-meteor-shower-2013-best-view
https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/aug/13/
perseids-meteor-shower-timelapse-video
micrometeoroid
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/12/
science/webb-telescope-images-nasa#mirror-hits-damage
meteorite strike
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/
meteorite-strike-video-canada
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