Asteroids at the AstroValberg festival
From the 9th to the 11th of August 2021, the AstroValberg departmental festival returns for its second edition. This year's event explores the solar system with a rich programme: night-time walks, sky observation evenings, creative workshops, and many conferences… including the one of our Neorocker, Benoit Carry (Lagrange laboratory of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur -OCA), on "How to
Neorocks 4 Kids – on-line!
For Asteroid Day 2021, join us for the launch of Neorocks4Kids! Neorocks4Kids uses 3 short videos to share our project with children, the next generation, the mini-Neorockers! With a little help from own mini-neorocker Clara, our Neorockers will tell us about asteroids, about how to spot and name an asteroid and about the telescopes we need to do it. Tune in to #Neorocks4Kids
NEOROCKS 4 Kids at Asteroid Day 2021
Join us on 30 June for Neorocks4Kids at Asteroid Day 2021!! World premiere of our Neorocks4Kids videos, for all those inquiring minds! Details here and event hosted on our YouTube channel.
NEOROCKS 4 KIDS – Seeking YOUR input!
Here at Neorocks, we want to help inform the next generation of Neorockers! We want to get information out to the younger generations, help them to understand more about asteroids and about all the amazing science and technology that surrounds them. We have some ideas about how to do this
Osiris-Rex leaves Bennu
Osiris-Rex is coming home. Nasa's robotic prospector reached asteroid Bennu in 2018 and spent two years flying near and around it, before collecting rubble from the surface in October 2020. It is estimated that the spacecraft has collected between 200gr to 400gr of samples, cited as Nasa’s biggest cosmic haul since the Apollo moon rocks. The trip back home started yesterday and
NEOROCKS on YouTube
We have just launched our NEOROCKS YouTube Channel. We’ll be updating it regularly and for now you can find our partners e-lightning talks from the 7th IAA Planetary Defense Confererence. It’s Friday, settle down this evening with a glass of wine and some popcorn and learn some more about Near Earth Objects! Photo by GR Stocks on Unsplash
NEOROCKS in Horizon Magazine
Hot of the press! Our own Ettore Perozzi from the Italian Space Agency was interviewed for the Horizon Magazine. Have a look here at what he had to say about “how do we know if an asteroid headed our way is dangerous?” and about what NEOROCKS is doing to assess the threat of near earth objectives in rapid time. Photo by Elena Mozhvilo
NEOROCKS @ 7th IAA PDC Conference 2021
The 7th IAA Planetary Defense Confererence will be held (online) on April 26-30, 2021. Hosted by UNOOSA in collaboration with ESA, the bi-annual conference brings together world experts to discuss the threat to Earth posed by asteroids and comets and actions that might be taken to deflect a threatening object. Our NEOROCKS partners will be there of course! Fabrizio Bernardi from Spacedys will
Happy Birthday Galileo!
On this day, in 1564, Galileo Galilei was born. Astronomer, philosopher, physician…he played a central role in modern science. His observations of the solar system, including the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and the Sun, lead to discoveries that revolutionised our knowledge of the universe. While looking at Jupiter, for instance, he discovered its four moons. The newly discovered bodies were named Medicia sidera
Asteroid named after Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre
A very special asteroid has been named after Liliana Segre (born 1930), an Italian Holocaust survivor, Senator for life since 2018. The object is the minor body 75190, which holds the same concentration camp number that she was assigned in Auschwitz and that is tattooed on her forearm. “75190 Segreliliana” is a main belt asteroid with a 1498 m diameter, a