Friday, March 26, 2010

Nasa finds: An Avalanche of Dark Asteroids



"Our instrument is finding [dozens] of asteroids every day that were never detected before," says Ned Wright, principal investigator for WISE and a physicist at the University of California in Los Angeles. "WISE is very good at this kind of work."

Visible-light telescopes conducting past asteroid surveys may have missed a large population of darker asteroids that WISE is now flushing out of hiding. Most of the asteroids WISE is finding are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but a fraction of them are different—they're the kind of Earth-approaching asteroids that send shivers all the way down a Brontosaurus' spine.

Read the entire article:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/26mar_darkasteroids.htm

More recent heavenly phenomena:
http://beyondastronomy.blogspot.com/2010/03/comets-dramatic-death-dive-into-sun.html
http://beyondastronomy.blogspot.com/2010/03/search-on-for-death-star-that-throws.html

Now think, in light of these recent events, does this seem to be the proper time to start cutting funding in these fields?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8579319.stm





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