PPT-1 Impact on Asteroid?

P2010 A2 dusty tail Detected 6 Jan 2010 by LINEAR and classified as a comet Located in main asteroid belt a 2290 AU e 01244 I 525º 120 m diameter nucleus amp tail of mmsize dust particles. . Chapter 17 . Impacts of Asteroids and Comets. Projectiles from Space. Asteroids, comets and meteors cross Earth’s path. Asteroids and comets are known as . bolides. Asteroid Impact 65 million yrs ago. Unit 4. Appearances of comet Kohoutek (1973), Halley (1986), and Hale-Bopp (1997) caused great concern among superstitious.. Comet Hyakutake in 1996. Throughout history, comets have been considered as portents of doom, even very recently: . Icarus Key Words Abundances, interiors Accretion Adaptive optics Aeronomy Asteroid AnneFrank Asteroid Braille Asteroid Ceres Asteroid Dactyl Asteroid Eros Asteroid Gaspra Asteroid Ida Asteroid Itokaw N.Tungalag. 1. ,. . S.Schmalz. 2. , V.Voropaev. 3. . , I.Molotov. 3. . 1. Research . Center of Astronomy and Geophysics, Ulaanbaatar, . Mongolia, . namkhai_tungalag@yahoo.com. . 2 . Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam, . Supernova explosions. Supernova explosions. Betelgeuse. 600 light years. Comet and Asteroid Impacts. Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter. Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter. Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter. Binaries, triples, and pairs. Petr Pravec. Astronomical Institute AS CR, Ond. řejov, . Czech Republic. AIM Science Meeting. ESAC, Madrid, 2016 March 1. Asteroid systems. Bound asteroids – . Binary/ternary. Matthew Streseman. Presenting for . Dr. Clark’s ASTR 2401. Outline. Background. Data Collection. Data Analysis. Results. Conclusions. Asteroids. Rocky bodies in the Inner Solar System. Not planets. Fallacious complacence about Planetary Defense. “. This is not an issue that we should worry about in the near term.”. – . NASA. Administrator Charles Bolden,. testifying to Congress about the threat of catastrophic impact by an asteroid or a comet. and Human Exploration. Michele Gates. H. uman Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. Leveraging Capabilities for an Asteroid Mission. NASA is aligning key activities in Science, Space Technology, and Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorates. Demise of the Dinosaurs. Demise of Dinosaurs Discovery. Discovered by Luis and his son Walter Alvarez in 1980. Proposed Asteroid Theory . What was believed before Asteroid Theory. Lack of evidence . of other opposing theories. 21.02.2013. Siegfried Eggl. . Asteroid Deflection - Why Bother?. Chelyabinsk. . 15.02.2013. D=7-17m. M~7000 t. Shallow entry . Asteroid Deflection - Why Bother?. D~45m. M~???. Missed.... MPC 2013. Currently Known NEOs > 1km: (1268). Suggest a asteroid name and flavor to ben and jerry's. asteroid. HED . meteorites. Iron . meteorites. Pallasite. Martian meteorites (. Chassigny). Elephant Moraine . 79001. Shergotty meteorite. Ice cream. .. They have also been called . planetoids. , especially the larger ones. Formation. The most obvious and general thought . “ A Planet would some how been destroyed millions of years and that resulted to asteroid belts ” . . 2. Asteroid . Belt. Asteroid Belt. 3. The four inner planets formed, . but Jupiter’s huge gravity caused . chaos in the region past Mars. . No big planet ever formed there. Primitive Solar System. 4.