In Depth | Asteroids - NASA Solar System Exploration
4 Apr 2025 at 3:09am
Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. The current known asteroid count is: . Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting our Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt.
Asteroids, Comets & Meteors - NASA Solar System Exploration
2 Apr 2025 at 2:14am
Our solar system?s small bodies ? asteroids, comets, and meteors ? pack big surprises. These chunks of rock, ice, and metal are leftovers from the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago.
Small Bodies Community White Paper: Asteroids
1 Apr 2025 at 12:17pm
This paper identifies the top-level science issues, mission priorities, research and technology needs, and programmatic balance for the exploration of Asteroids. This paper was organized by the Small Bodies Assessment Group.
Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration
3 Apr 2025 at 8:00pm
NASA?s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
In Depth | Perseids ? NASA Solar System Exploration
31 Mar 2025 at 6:23pm
Meteors come from leftover comet particles and bits from broken asteroids. When comets come around the Sun, they leave a dusty trail behind them. Every year Earth passes through these debris trails, which allows the bits to collide with our atmosphere and disintegrate to create fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.
In Depth | Oumuamua ? NASA Solar System Exploration
4 Apr 2025 at 10:00pm
The first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, 1I/2017 U1 ?Oumuamua, was discovered Oct. 19, 2017 by the University of Hawaii?s Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA?s Near-Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth?s neighborhood. While originally classified as a comet ...
Vesta and Ceres: What We Knew About These Worlds Before and After Dawn
1 Apr 2025 at 11:44pm
Their non-random distribution seems to indicate that they are the result of low-energy impacts by carbon-bearing asteroids that delivered the darker material to Vesta and other impacts that melted Vesta?s surface, darkening the material there.
Make Your Own Awesome Asteroid - NASA Solar System Exploration
29 Mar 2025 at 7:30pm
Asteroids are leftover rocky parts of the solar system. Some have not changed very much in 4.5 billion years and some have partly melted. Others have completely melted and formed iron-nickel core with rocky material on top. All asteroids exhibit craters that record collisions between asteroids ? big and small. They tell
In Depth | 1P/Halley ? NASA Solar System Exploration
2 Apr 2025 at 10:03pm
Asteroids, Comets & Meteors 1P/Halley In 1986, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the nucleus of a comet, passing and imaging Halley's nucleus as it receded from the Sun. Credit: Halley Multicolor Camera Team, Giotto Project, ESA | More about this image
In Depth | Our Solar System - NASA Solar System Exploration
3 Apr 2025 at 11:06pm
Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity ? the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
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4 Apr 2025 at 3:09am
Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. The current known asteroid count is: . Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting our Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt.
Asteroids, Comets & Meteors - NASA Solar System Exploration
2 Apr 2025 at 2:14am
Our solar system?s small bodies ? asteroids, comets, and meteors ? pack big surprises. These chunks of rock, ice, and metal are leftovers from the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago.
Small Bodies Community White Paper: Asteroids
1 Apr 2025 at 12:17pm
This paper identifies the top-level science issues, mission priorities, research and technology needs, and programmatic balance for the exploration of Asteroids. This paper was organized by the Small Bodies Assessment Group.
Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration
3 Apr 2025 at 8:00pm
NASA?s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
In Depth | Perseids ? NASA Solar System Exploration
31 Mar 2025 at 6:23pm
Meteors come from leftover comet particles and bits from broken asteroids. When comets come around the Sun, they leave a dusty trail behind them. Every year Earth passes through these debris trails, which allows the bits to collide with our atmosphere and disintegrate to create fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.
In Depth | Oumuamua ? NASA Solar System Exploration
4 Apr 2025 at 10:00pm
The first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, 1I/2017 U1 ?Oumuamua, was discovered Oct. 19, 2017 by the University of Hawaii?s Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA?s Near-Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth?s neighborhood. While originally classified as a comet ...
Vesta and Ceres: What We Knew About These Worlds Before and After Dawn
1 Apr 2025 at 11:44pm
Their non-random distribution seems to indicate that they are the result of low-energy impacts by carbon-bearing asteroids that delivered the darker material to Vesta and other impacts that melted Vesta?s surface, darkening the material there.
Make Your Own Awesome Asteroid - NASA Solar System Exploration
29 Mar 2025 at 7:30pm
Asteroids are leftover rocky parts of the solar system. Some have not changed very much in 4.5 billion years and some have partly melted. Others have completely melted and formed iron-nickel core with rocky material on top. All asteroids exhibit craters that record collisions between asteroids ? big and small. They tell
In Depth | 1P/Halley ? NASA Solar System Exploration
2 Apr 2025 at 10:03pm
Asteroids, Comets & Meteors 1P/Halley In 1986, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the nucleus of a comet, passing and imaging Halley's nucleus as it receded from the Sun. Credit: Halley Multicolor Camera Team, Giotto Project, ESA | More about this image
In Depth | Our Solar System - NASA Solar System Exploration
3 Apr 2025 at 11:06pm
Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity ? the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
WHAT IS THIS? This is an unscreened compilation of results from several search engines. The sites listed are not necessarily recommended by Surfnetkids.com.
