IRON AND ICE - SINO DAILY

Comet ISON is confirmed dead after brush with Sun

Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)

A comet that grabbed attention worldwide for being likened to a massive snowball in space did not survive its brush with the Sun last week, NASA confirmed on Tu...

Rock Comet Sprouts a Tail

Dec 01, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a certain meteor shower. Every year in mid-December the sky fills with flashes of light shooting out of the constellation ...

Comet ISON vanishes as it circles the sun

Nov 29, 2013 (AFP)

Comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the surface of the sun Thursday and vanished as it circled the fiery surface, astronomers said. The large block of...

Comet ISON probably did not survive Sun skirmish

Nov 29, 2013 (AFP)

Comet ISON seems to have perished in a much too-close encounter with the Sun, leaving only a dust trail that will disappear over time, astronomers said on Frida...

Comet ISON vs. the Solar Storm

Nov 29, 2013 (SPX)

In 2007, astronomers were amazed when a solar storm hit Comet Encke. NASA STEREO spacecraft watched as a CME (coronal mass ejection) struck the comet head on an...

Will comet ISON survive its near brush with the Sun?

Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)

US astrophysicists are split over what will happen when the comet ISON passes near the sun Thursday, but a majority think it will break apart. Comets are frozen...

NASA's Solar Observing Fleet to Watch Comet ISON's Journey around the Sun

Nov 26, 2013 (SPX)

It began in the Oort cloud, almost a light year away. It has traveled for over a million years. It has almost reached the star that has pulled it steadily forwa...

NASA, Planetary Resources Sign Agreement to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection

Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)

NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects usi...

Physicist's journey reveals smaller asteroids could cause bigger problems

Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)

Once in a lifetime, a physicist may get a chance to test his theories and simulations in a real-life event that changes the course of his scientific life. But r...

Comet ISON, hype aside, is an intriguing cosmic visitor

Nov 24, 2013 (UPI)

Comet of the century. Super comet. Hyped by the media and the subject of a couple of drum-beating TV documentaries, a dusty cosmic snowball named Comet ISON has...

Scientists find that Mars, not Earth, shakes up some near-Earth asteroids

Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)

For nearly as long as astronomers have been able to observe asteroids, a question has gone unanswered: Why do the surfaces of most asteroids appear redder than ...

Asteroids should be colonized or used as transport to planets

Nov 22, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

The potential colonization of asteroids is one of the most promising areas of space exploration - even more so than mining them for resources, Russian scientist...

MicroObservatory Catches Comet ISON

Nov 20, 2013 (SPX)

Hopes are high for Comet ISON, which has the potential to become the most spectacular comet seen in years. ISON is speeding through the inner solar system at ab...

Comet ISON: What's Next?

Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)

Comet ISON is now inside the orbit of Earth as it plunges headlong toward the sun for a fiery close encounter on Nov. 28th. Although the comet is not yet as bri...

When is a comet not a comet?

Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a unique and baffling object in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler ...

'Freakish' asteroid discovered, resembles rotating lawn sprinkler

Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers have discovered a "weird and freakish object" resembling a rotating lawn sprinkler in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The find, reported...

Astronomers Establish the Strength of High-Inclination Asteroids

Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)

A team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the University of Hyogo used the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) mounted o...

BRRISON Lifts Off To Study Comet ISON

Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)

The Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON) payload lifted off at 8:10 p.m. EDT from Ft. Sumner, N.M., on a mission that primarily includes the sun-grazing Co...

Six-tailed asteroid stuns scientists

Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)

A strange asteroid that appears to have multiple rotating tails has been spotted with NASA's Hubble telescope between Mars and Jupiter, astronomers said Thursda...

Surprising Recent Discoveries of Three Large Near-Earth Objects

Nov 07, 2013 (JPL)

Two surprisingly large Near-Earth Asteroids have been discovered in just the last week or so, as well as a third moderately large asteroid which surprisingly ha...