Essays on Asteroids

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ARTICLE INFORMATION A planet 1,200 light-years away is a good prospect for a habitable world, Friday, May 27, 2016, Astronomy Magazine (News and Observing: Astronomy News): www.astronomy.com/news

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According to research conducted by NASA’S Kepler mission in 2013, Kepler-62f has been discovered as a distant planet from Earth but approximately 40 percent larger than Earth. Kepler-62f is considered one of the exoplanets that could be habitable due to the anticipated oceans and rocks. After extensive observations using an existing HNBody computer model among other climate testing models, Kepler-62f has been considered to be in a position to ...

After almost 55 years since the first human flight into space, we have not yet developed space technology enough to settle in the neighboring planets and the moon, as expected by our ancestors. But in spite of the gradual and perhaps not such a rapid development of space technology, as we would like, the humanity moves progress forward and dreams about the cosmos. Every year mankind spends huge amount of manpower and resources for space programs, which are realized, forcing science and technology to move forward. And it's not a waste, but it's an investment in the future. Unfortunately, ...

Recommendation of near-earth Asteroids mining to the company board

Introduction The space mining operations are extremely prominent option for mining companies who are in pursuit of rare metals that are abundant on these celestial bodies. The man’s space expedition reached a landmark with the lunar expedition and since then a lot of mining activities are already planned for this segment of the space. However, the future prospects for mining of asteroids near to earth are very high as this idea is relatively newer to the world of mining. These are almost 13,000 celestial bodies flying very close to the earth in the space and they are ...

Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction is one of the greatest mass extinction in the history. According to statistics, over one hundred families became extinct. This was associated with the movement and fragmentation of the supercontinent. Secondly was as a result of ocean cooling beyond levels the organisms could survive. While the organisms had initially adapted to the warm tropical conditions, the sudden transition to the cold climate was unbearable for most organisms (“Ordovician”,n.d.).. The late Devonian mass extinction is thought to have been warm and dry period. It was characterized by Devonian fish that was the main components of ...

The significant astronomical aspect that was chosen for discussion in this essay is the NEAR Shoemaker landing on Asteroid Eros. NEAR is the acronym for The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous and was named in the honor of Gene Shoemaker, one of the most renowned planetary scientist. This project was actually planned for studying the 422 Eros, the near earth Asteroid. 422 Eros is one of the largest asteroids of near Earth. This astronomical operation was the first mission to orbit an asteroid and also the first to land on an asteroid’s surface. The fundamental scientific goals of this ...