Asteroid

The Space Debate Whether or not America should be funding space exploration, namely the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), does not really get debated much. However, when this subject is brought into question people tend to take a strict stance on one side or the other. It is easy to dismiss the entire objective of putting man in space as a waste of time and resources, but that could not be further from the truth. Space exploration stimulates technological innovation and…

there are numerous missions within Proving Ground, the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) is especially important. The mission will have two segments and likely take place in the 2020’s (NASA 27). The first half will be solely robotic; a spacecraft will be sent to capture a several ton sample of an asteroid and then enter into orbit in cislunar space (NASA 21). For the second segment of ARM, a manned spacecraft will travel to the captured asteroid. It will make “a historic opportunity that will…

Space is the last frontier, with discoveries made every single day. Gravity has a huge impact on these discoveries. We know that gravity impacts the solar system in many ways and all throughout the galaxy but how does gravity affect these things? All objects have a gravitational pull. This means that this force had a huge impact on the formation of our solar system and other solar systems in our galaxy and in the universe. First of all, a phet simulation showed us this. When mass 1=50 kg and…

“I begin at the leisure of all those above me, please give a smile or a nod when you are ready.” Planet Earth is the one place that every human being can call their home. It is shared between every human, every ecosystem, every organism, and provides us with a stable environment that is incredibly rare to find. It is when us as humans begin to sabotage our own success, that we forget what importance our planet withholds. This sabotaging of our success is shown through the extraneous funding of…

can be very easily described as - Rocky. Because of this it bears as strong resemblance to the earths moon. This is due the the heavily cratered surface which has been caused by asteroids which has caused these giant craters in the planets surface, leaving pulverized dust and boulders behind. The reason all of the asteroids were able to hit the surface of this planet is because its magnetic field is not strong enough to deflect or slow them down so it got hit by their full force. We are able to…

world’s coastlines” (Cargill, ). Cargill continues with entertaining the possibility of an ice-asteroid. From a scientific standpoint, he asks “were water to enter Earth’s system, where did it all go?” and from a bible standpoint, he points out that “the Bible says it ‘rained’ and the ‘springs of the deep’ opened” (Cargill, ). According to the New Oxford Bible Dictionary, there is no mention of an asteroid in Genesis 6-9. Even farfetched theories are having a hard time proving Noah’s Ark and the…

Fig. 11: Residuals in the osculating orbital elements of Nereid for long time interval. The semi-major axis is given in km, eccentricity in radians and the rest of elements are in degree (Saad & Kinoshita 2001). Vashkov’yak and Teslenko (2010) in addition to the effects of the mother planet Neptune, they considered the influence of the attraction of the internal satellite Triton on the evolution of the orbit of the external satellite Nereid. The disturbing function of Triton is…

exploration is pricey as well.” and he compares the two on their experience of going to space and into the ocean, both are dark, cold, and uninhabitable to live. The deep seabed is a much more likely source of so-called rare earth metals than distant asteroids plus this can create more opportunities for jobs that are safer than those getting blown up into pieces such as The Challenger back in the…

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, has been around for fifty-eight years now! NASA is a United States government agency that is responsible for air and space travel. It has accomplished several different things pertaining to air and space travel. The biggest accomplishes are: human space flight, first human landing on the Moon, they also have humans living on the ISS (International Space Station), They have sent space probes to every single one of the planets in…

the atmosphere that is located on Earth. Mars no longer has a magnetosphere and has not had one for quite some time now. Some people conjecture that it has been gone for four billion years, they think that this has been caused by a large amount of asteroid strikes. Without the magnetosphere the solar winds directly interact with the…