Space Asteroid

A close up image of the asteroid ida taken by nasa s galileo spacecraft.
Space asteroid. An asteroid spotted by a hawaii telescope last month and added to the official tally of may in fact be space junk from a failed moon landing 54 years ago scientists have concluded. The spacecraft which has been orbiting bennu since december 2018 is. Nasa s leading asteroid expert paul chodas. Nasa s leading asteroid expert paul chodas.
There are lots of asteroids in our solar system. 15 2013 an asteroid slammed into the atmosphere over the russian city of chelyabinsk creating a shock wave that injured 1 200 people. Although asteroids orbit the sun like planets they are much smaller than planets. The asteroid bennu is a strange little place but data from nasa s osiris rex mission is starting to unravel its mysteries.
20 1966 photo provided by the san diego air and space museum shows an atlas centaur 7 rocket on the launchpad at cape canaveral fla. New research reveals veins of carbonite. Bennu is considered a fairly loose. 13 1965 photo provided by the san diego air and space museum shows an atlas centaur 7 rocket carried by a truck at cape canaveral fla.
The space rock is thought to have measured about 65.