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Read More »International Asteroid Day with NASA and NEOWISE Extended
June 30th was International Asteroid Day and NASA Science Live hosted a 30 minute discussion to mark the day. They also announced that the NEOWISE asteroid-hunting space telescope was being extended two years.
Read More »The top ten Canadian space stories of 2020
It’s that time of year again where we look back at the top Canadian space stories of the year. To say that 2020 was a remarkable year would be an understatement. The year started out full of promise and optimism, but was quickly overshadowed by the pandemic.
Read More »Bennu asteroid’s history comes to light days before epic spacecraft landing
Just days ahead of a spacecraft landing on Bennu, a newly released model of the asteroid shows a complex history – including the fact that its surface regolith might have expanded and contracted at least once.
Read More »Asteroid 1998 OR2 makes a close pass of Earth
It was close, ok not like in the movie armageddon, but Asteroid 1998 OR2 came within several million kilometres of Earth and NASA says there’s “no possibility of impact for at least the next 200 years.”
Read More »Toronto-area Teen Models Asteroid Collision Risk
MONTREAL – At age 13, Artash Nath is already taking on the big questions puzzling scientists – climate change, planetary atmospheres and asteroid collisions.
Read More »Key Space Resources Meeting to be Held In Ottawa
Ottawa will host the 11th joint meeting of the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) and Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) next June.
Read More »Let’s Talk Asteroids: Canadian Astronaut and a Senior Scientist Answer Your Questions
Canada is participating in the NASA led OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. In early December the spacecraft went into orbit around the asteroid. Why are we participating in this mission?
Read More »Asteroid Bennu is Everything the OSIRIS-REx Mission Planners Hoped it Would Be
The first results are in from the OSIRIS-REx mission and they couldn’t please researchers more. Asteroid Bennu is everything they had hoped it would be based on the data obtained so far. It also has provided a few surprises.
Read More »Tim Explains: What are Asteroids and Why do we Study Them?
In an ongoing Canadian Science in Space video series, the Canadian Space Agency’s Tim Haltigin explains what are asteroids and why do we study them?
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