Merry Christmas from NEOROCKS!
We are off on our winter break now, so we wish all our Neorockers and friends a very Merry Christmas! While you are drinking your mulled wine, take a look up at the sky. Plenty to see on Christmas night, from the Orion Nebula, to the Pleiades and even an impressive planet show. Happy Christmas gazing! Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash
DART, the first mission to deflect an asteroid, has been launched!
Today is an important day in the asteroid world! NASA’s DART mission has been launched to test an asteroid deflection technique, targeting the Didymos binary asteroid system. Today, the European Space Agency is involved too, as the first signals coming from the space craft will be captured by the ESA’s NNO-2 antenna, measuring 4.5 metres across and located in New Norcia, Western
Calling all budding young writers!
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NEOROCKS @ EPSC 2021
Our Neorockers were out in force at the Europlanet Science Congress (13 – 24 September 2021) and you can find all their presentations on our new Scientific Outputs page (which we are very proud of, so check it out!!!). Photo by Tamara Gak on Unsplash
Two new asteroid names…
Remember we told you about the naming of the Asteroids in our #NEOROCKS4Kids video, with the Italian Space Agency. We said that Asteroids could be named by the person that discovered them and could be named after whoever deserves a place in the sky. Well, who could be more deserving that the health and civil protection services that have been by
World Space Week
Here at NEOROCKS, we are loving the World Space Week and this year's celebration of Women in Space. Among the many events, have a listen to the interview with Maruška Strah, Executive Director of World Space Week Association and mentor at UNOOSA’s Space4Women programme. NEOROCKS supports women in space from an early age, starting with our young mini-Neorockers! Photo from official poster of
NEOROCKS @ European Researchers’ Night
NEOROCKS was out and about for the European Researchers' Night! Have a look at the fantastic "Professoroni" lesson in Perugia (minute 1:22:21), with our very own Ettori Perozzi (ASI) and an unusual group of students (in Italian language).
Join the European Researchers’ Night
Tonight is the European Researchers' Night. We are talking about a Europe-wide public event, taking place in 29 countries! The European Researchers' Night gives us a chance to learn from research projects across Europe and beyond. Find the events near you here and follow the European Researchers' Night on Facebook and Twitter Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash
NEOROCKS at Superquark!
Superquark is the most popular and respected scientific outreach TV programme in Italy. It introduces the general public to all sorts of scientific topics explaining scientific facts with an easy to understand language, real footage and renders. On August 25th, the episode looked at the importance of research on asteroids and of space missions that will be launched to deflect their
Let’s hunt asteroids!
Do you think that spotting asteroids is an easy task? Really? Have a go at the game available onto the website of our partner Neospace: https://www.neospace.pl/asteroid-day/. You’ll see 5 pairs of photos found by the Yasutani program and your task will be to identify an asteroid within plenty of stars. Use the 1410 code to log in and have fun! Photo by Greg