Solar System Research publishes articles concerning the bodies of the Solar System, i.e., planets and their satellites, asteroids, comets, meteoric substances, and cosmic dust.
Within NASA's human exploration division, the committee has questions and concerns about the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)—a planned deep space mission to visit an asteroid and bring it closer to Earth.
Their anxiety may not concern the demise of all mankind — say, by an asteroid slamming into Earth — but rather the death of a smaller, and more personal, slice of humanity: a social group to which they belong.
We have succeeded in developing an analytical semiempirical representation of amplitude and Mueller scattering matrices to be utilized in inverse problems concerning asteroid photometric and polarimetric phase curves.
During much of the 19th century, most discoveries concerning asteroids were based on studies of their orbits.
Just as no Californian would be alarmed by the prospect of an earthquake registering 1 on the Richter scale, "the average citizen shouldn't be concerned about an asteroid with a Torino value of 1," says Binzel.
The effects of the coefficients C20 and C22 of the non-central gravity field of the asteroid are especially concerned.
At the ESA, we have been exploring public-private partnerships since last year and, while none of them concerns asteroid mining, it might yet come.
The ceremony recommences, and as the mayor begins his speech in Italian, those mellifluous, seesawing, meaningless harpsichord words, Less feels his mind drifting away like a spaceman from an airlock, off into the asteroid belt of his own concerns.
Concerns have been raised regarding the reputed link, in part because very few solid observational constraints exist of the asteroid or family.
