asteroid Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/asteroid/ Astronomy author and speaker Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:00:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png asteroid Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/asteroid/ 32 32 166732936 Asteroid (15347) Colinstuart https://www.colinstuart.net/asteroid-15347-colinstuart/ https://www.colinstuart.net/asteroid-15347-colinstuart/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:02:33 +0000 https://colinstuart.net/?p=5156 The post Asteroid (15347) Colinstuart appeared first on Colin Stuart.

]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/asteroid-15347-colinstuart/feed/ 0 5156 Moon revealed around asteroid that recently buzzed past Earth https://www.colinstuart.net/moon-revealed-around-asteroid-that-recently-buzzed-past-earth/ https://www.colinstuart.net/moon-revealed-around-asteroid-that-recently-buzzed-past-earth/#respond Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:43:29 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1809 NASA has released new data from yesterday’s cosmic fly-past when asteroid 2004 BL86 zoomed past the Earth at a slightly greater distance than our Moon. Those observations appear to reveal the asteroid has a moon of its own. The main asteroid is 325 metres across and its companion measures 70 metres. Click the image below to see an […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/moon-revealed-around-asteroid-that-recently-buzzed-past-earth/feed/ 0 1809 Dawn mission reveals Ceres’s ‘white spot’ persists https://www.colinstuart.net/dawn-mission-reveals-ceress-white-spot-persists/ https://www.colinstuart.net/dawn-mission-reveals-ceress-white-spot-persists/#respond Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:10:17 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1775 The latest image from NASA’s Dawn mission has revealed the same unexplained white spot observed by the Hubble Space Telescope as far back as 2003. Its true nature is one of many mysteries the mission hopes to resolve when it sidles up to the asteroid later this year. Some researchers suspect that Ceres has a […]

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