#Asteroid

It helped to have a number of features to aid survival following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

This big asteroid was discovered shortly before it was expected to hurtle past Earth. Any time you see a headline about asteroids approaching the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by all the time.

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as “co-orbitals”, these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth. Basically, they take the exact same amount of time to orbit the Sun as we do.…

The newly discovered space rock is said to make a close call early next week, flying by Earth, but rather than panic, scientists say this could be a great chance to study the event up close.

Named Psyche like the asteroid it's after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red planet at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph) on Friday

From Independent RSS Feed: NASA's Psyche spacecraft buzzing Mars on its way to a rare metal asteroid

From Independent RSS Feed: Dante’s iconic 14th-century poem may have been inspired by asteroid impact

From Independent RSS Feed: What we know about the colossal asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs

From Independent RSS Feed: A blow-by-blow account of the dinosaur-killing asteroid armageddon: From first vibrations to 100-metre megatsunamis

In February 2013, a 20 metre asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk without warning, injuring more than 1,600 people and releasing energy equivalent to 33 Hiroshima bombs.…

Main-belt world Egeria is drifting near the star 80 Virginis tonight — the asteroid’s motion will be readily observable.

Today in the history of astronomy, JAXA begins its historic sample-return mission.

From Independent RSS Feed: New shortcut found to Mars that could cut travel time by half

From Destructoid RSS Feed: Duck Side of the Moon review – A cozy adventure that doesn’t fully take flight

Wouldn't it be great if we had a shortcut to Mars? Following this asteroid through space might be the key to finding one.

I've been in a test world for quite some time now and I can't find a satisfying solution to this issue. I want to use stack inserters to take the output from the advanced asteroid recipes and unload each output on opposite sides of the belt.…

The Sikhote-Alin meteoroid entered Earth’s atmosphere on February 12, 1947, over the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in far eastern Russia. Based on trajectory reconstruction and recovered mass estimates, the original body is thought to have been a fragment of a…

From Space.com: 'This is going to be what makes the Earth secure.' How one California company plans to protect us from dangerous asteroids

From Gizmodo: Astronomer Finds a Shortcut to Mars by Following an Asteroid’s Journey Through Space

Over the weekend, I had conversations in meat space regarding this film and so I wrote the following analysis in response. I doubt I'll be writing anything else about ASTEROID CITY.…