NASA s DART mission, an attempt to discover if a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid off a collision course with Earth, has been described as a smashing success.
At a NASA observatory in Hawaii, scientists have detected a new type of water-rich ancient asteroid similar to the dwarf planet Ceres in the main belt. The discovery adds to the mounting evidence that asteroids migrated to the main belt from a cold outer region of the solar system.
by keeping the memory of the holocaust alive. for manfred, the best way to pay tribute to his close friend zigi is to do everything possible to ensure nothing like the holocaust ever happens again. aleem maqbool, bbc news. what a moving report there. an asteroid the size ofa mini bus is skimming past the tip of south america right now, just 2,200 miles from the earth s surface, one of the closest asteroid approaches ever recorded. andy rivkin, planetary astronomer atjohns hopkins university in the us told me more about the close encounter. yeah, this object is passing something like i% as close as the moon is, the moon is 100
they re not keeping to their promises. they have made the promises but then they re taking back the promises, and it seems to be something that s just happening to the windrush victims time and time again. broken promises, confidence shattered, casting a cloud over this year s windrush 75 celebrations. adina campbell, bbc news. an asteroid the size of a minibus hasjust made one of the closest approaches to our planet ever recorded. it passed just 2200 miles from the earth s surface. experts say that while this space rock, known as 2023 bu, is too small to do any damage, it illustrates how little we know about the near earth environment. andy rivkin, planetary astronomer atjohns hopkins university in the us told me more about the close encounter. yeah, this object is passing something like i% as close as the moon is, so the moon
that was andy rivkin, planetary astronomer atjohn hogg wins university talking to me a little earlier. that brings us to the ends of this hour of newsday johns hopkins university. hello there. for most of us, the working week is going to end on a dry note, but cloud amounts will vary. i m hopeful that most places will get to see at least a little bit of sunshine. it will be largely dry, but i can t completely rule out just the odd shower. where we re starting friday morning with clear skies, a cold start across scotland and northern ireland, a touch of frost, some patchy fog which could also affect parts of northern england and wales. further south and east, a bit more in the way of cloud and one or two morning showers, many of which will fade by the afternoon. and then for england and wales, it s a mix of patchy cloud and sunny spells. some sunshine too for northern ireland and scotland. but for northwest scotland, eventually northern parts of northern ireland, we will see more clo