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NASA Eyes on Asteroids

20 New Asteroid Names Honour Prominent Canadians, Thanks to RASC Work

by Elizabeth HowellNovember 30, 2023November 30, 2023

Twenty asteroids now have Canadian individuals in their names, thanks to the efforts of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC).

A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can be seen on the middle right. Scientists have found evidence of both carbon and water in initial analysis of this material. The bulk of the sample is located inside. Image credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold.

OSIRIS-REx Sample Cracked Open, Does Not Disappoint

by Elizabeth HowellOctober 11, 2023October 11, 2023

The NASA Lucy mission will visit Trojan asteroids

Lucy spacecraft’s Trojan journey is only the next step

by Elizabeth HowellOctober 14, 2021October 14, 2021

International Asteroid Day - Comet NEOWISE—which was Discovered on March 27, 2020 by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission—captured on July 6, 2020 above the northeast horizon just before sunrise in Tucson

International Asteroid Day with NASA and NEOWISE Extended

by Marc BoucherJuly 2, 2021July 2, 2021

Canada in Space

News

The top ten Canadian space stories of 2020

by Marc BoucherDecember 31, 2020December 31, 2020

An OLA scan that was taken over 5.5 minutes and contains 3,342,748 measurements. Shadows are in areas that were not visible from the perspective of OLA.

Bennu asteroid’s history comes to light days before epic spacecraft landing

by Elizabeth HowellOctober 14, 2020October 14, 2020

Asteroid 1998 OR2 path animated

Asteroid 1998 OR2 makes a close pass of Earth

by Marc BoucherApril 29, 2020April 29, 2020

Artist's concept of a near-Earth object

Toronto-area Teen Models Asteroid Collision Risk

by Elizabeth HowellOctober 16, 2019October 16, 2019

Artist's concept of possible exploration programs. Just a few kilometers from the Apollo 17 Taurus Littrow landing site, a lunar mining facility harvests oxygen from the resource-rich volcanic soil of the eastern Mare Serenitatis.

News, Technology

Key Space Resources Meeting to be Held In Ottawa

by Marc BoucherSeptember 30, 2019February 24, 2020

Astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons and CSA senior mission scientist Tim Haltigin answer your questions about asteroids

Business, News, Science

Let’s Talk Asteroids: Canadian Astronaut and a Senior Scientist Answer Your Questions

by Marc BoucherDecember 26, 2018May 5, 2019