• Search

Search in Site

Alaska Native News

  • HOME
  • Featured
  • General
  • World
  • National
  • State
  • Rural
  • Arctic
  • Science/Education
  • Health
  • At Sea
  • Politics
  • Weather
  • Tides
  • Entertainment
    • Your Horoscope
    • Daily Crossword/Sudoku
    • Comics
  • Opinions/Op/Ed/Letters
    • Op/Ed and the Editor
    • Submit Press Release, OP/ED or Letter to the Editor
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • North Slope/Northwest Alaska
  • Interior Alaska
  • Southwest Alaska
  • Southcentral
  • Southeast Alaska
  • This Day in Alaskan History
  1. Home
  2. /
  3. asteroid
  4. /
  5. Page 3
Home»Posts tagged with»asteroid (Page 3)

NASA Provides Live Coverage of Spacecraft Arrival at Asteroid This Morning

By NASA on Dec 3, 2018   Featured, Science/Education  

NASA Provides Live Coverage of Spacecraft Arrival at Asteroid This Morning

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with its targeted asteroid, Bennu, on Monday, Dec. 3 at approximately noon EST. NASA will air a live event from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EST to highlight the arrival of the agency’s first asteroid sample return mission. The program will […]

Observatories Team Up to Reveal Rare Double Asteroid

By Calla Cofield | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JoAnna Wendel | NASA on Jul 15, 2018   Featured, Science/Education  

Observatories Team Up to Reveal Rare Double Asteroid

New observations by three of the world’s largest radio telescopes have revealed that an asteroid discovered last year is actually two objects, each about 3,000 feet (900 meters) in size, orbiting each other. Near-Earth asteroid 2017 YE5 was discovered with observations provided by the Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey on Dec. 21, 2017, but no details […]

Did the Chicxulub Asteroid Cause Earth’s Thermometer to Spike?

By Michelle Hampson | AAAS on Jul 15, 2018   Featured, Science/Education  

Did the Chicxulub Asteroid Cause Earth’s Thermometer to Spike?

When the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth 65 million years ago, the event drove an abrupt and long-lasting era of global warming, a new study reports. The results , published in the May 25 issue of Science, suggest that the asteroid impact caused a rapid temperature increase of 5 degrees Celsius (roughly 9 degrees Fahrenheit) that endured for […]

Asteroid Discovered Saturday Disintegrates Hours Later Over Southern Africa

By DC Angle/Dwayne Brown | NASA on Jun 4, 2018   Featured, Science/Education  

Asteroid Discovered Saturday Disintegrates Hours Later Over Southern Africa

A boulder-sized asteroid designated 2018 LA was discovered Saturday morning, June 2, and was determined to be on a collision course with Earth, with impact just hours away. Because it was very faint, the asteroid was estimated to be only about 6 feet (2 meters) across, which is small enough that it was expected to […]

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … 8 Next »
  • Advertise with Us
  • Submit Press Release, OP/ED or Letter to the Editor
  • Contact Alaska Native News
  • DMCA
  • Privacy Policy
© 2023, ↑ Alaska Native News
Log in -