Pythagorean Astronomy: On Board with DART

Posted on 2 November 2022 by Chris North

At the end of September, NASA’s DART mission was deliberately crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos. Not carelessness, but a deliberate act with a view to testing planetary defense. After all, if we discover something large heading towards Earth, we might want to be able to nudge it off course. Here in Wales, the Comet Chasers
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The Welsh school children helping NASA save the planet from asteroid strikes

Posted on 26 September 2022 by Chris North

In Hollywood movies like Armageddon, Deep Impact, or the more recent Don’t Look Up, it is the Americans who save the Earth from the disaster of an asteroid or comet impact. But now Welsh school children are getting in on the act, observing an asteroid in support of An exciting NASA mission. NASA and partners
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Pythagorean Astronomy: flying space-shrapnel and a misbehaving Universe

Posted on 2 April 2019 by Chris North

In December 2018 an object hit the Earth’s atmosphere at over 100,000 kph over the Arctic Ocean, entirely unnoticed, until the orange streak was spotted in satellite imagery. Meanwhile, two missions are currently exploring much larger asteroids – Japan’s Hyabusa-2 mission to Ryugu and NASA’s Osiris-REX mission to Bennu. Chris North and Edward Gomez discuss
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