NEOROCKS at EU ESA Workshop
NEOROCKS was out in force at the EU ESA Workshop on the Imminent Impactors, with a presentation from Neorockers from the Italian Space Agency and INFAF on the rapid response experiment. Presentations are available here and more details can be found on ASI's web site. Photo Nasa 2018 (approaching asteroid Bennu)
Neorockers and Dart….Focus on University of Padova
What has the University of Padova being doing for DART? Professor Monica Lazzarin from the Department of Physics and Astronomy is DART Team Investigation member and she participates in the international campaign of ground based observations of Didymos and Dimorphos before and after the impact. Other Neorockers in her team are also involved. Fiorangela La Forgia is a member of the
Neorockers and Dart….Focus on LICIACUBE
What have Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica INAF and Italian Space Agency ASI being doing for DART? Many things, but let’s focus on LICIACube (Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids). LICIACube is a space mission of ASI, and part of the NASA DART. LICIACube was hosted as secondary spacecraft during all DART’s interplanetary cruise, being then released by its dispenser before the
Neorockers and Dart….Focus on IAC
What has Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) being doing for DART? Neorocker Julia de Leon, planetary scientist at the IAC, is coordinating (together with Dr. Simone Ieva, from INAF) the Characterisation part of the Observations Working Group. Right now, she is not at her office in the Canary Islands, but in Chile, as she will be observing the DART impact
ESA NEO August Newsletter
A litte late, because the Neorockers have been taking a wee summer break before the busy autumn, but better late than never! Here is the August newsletter from ESA SSA-NEO. Enjoy! Photo by Maddi Bazzocco on Unsplash
ESA NEO June Newsletter
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released the June newsletter. Access it here for the most relevant data and events on asteroids and comets approaching the orbit of the Earth.
May Newsletter from NEOCC
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released its May newsletter. Download it here
March Newsletter from NEOCC
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released its March newsletter. Download it here to learn about the most relevant data and events on asteroids and comets approaching the orbit of the Earth. If you want the newsletter straight in your inbox every month, just fill in the form here.
Don’t panic and look up!
Have you watched Don’t look up and are you wondering what would happen in real life with a NEO targeting Earth? Our NEROCKER Ettore Perozzi from the Italian Space Agency can help us understand the difference between fiction and reality. On the one hand, rather than relying on manual calculations performed by a single team of astronomers, in real life, interconnected nets
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