After Chelyabinsk: European experts assess asteroid options ... - ESA

8 May 2013 ... In February, a speeding asteroid slammed into our atmosphere and exploded high over Russia's Ural region, injuring hundreds and causing ...

ESA - Space for Kids - Our Universe - Asteroid families

Ceres is now known to have a width of about 940 km - about one quarter (one fourth) the size of Earth's Moon. But it accounts for more than one quarter of the ...

Near-miss asteroid will return next year / Space Situational ... - ESA

15 Mar 2012 ... When it whizzes past Earth in 2013, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet – but not by much. The 50 m space rock is ...

European Space Agency to probe asteroid blind spot / Exploring ...

In the past five weeks two asteroids have passed close by Earth, at distances of 1.2 and 3 times the distance to the Moon. Another asteroid has recently been ...

Asteroids: Structure and composition of asteroids / Space Science ...

From piles of 'rubble' to complex mixtures of metals, and carbon and silicon compounds, asteroids are not just dull grey lumps of cratered rock... We find that  ...

Asteroid Steins' hidden gems / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA

18 Feb 2013 ... ESA's Rosetta spacecraft snapped images of asteroid Steins as it flew by the diamond-shaped asteroid on 5 September 2008, revealing a tiny ...

Lost asteroid rediscovered with a little help from ESA / Space ...

12 Oct 2012 ... A potentially hazardous asteroid once found but then lost has been rediscovered and its orbit confirmed by a determined amateur astronomer ...

Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid hunt / Space Situational ...

14 May 2012 ... A partnership with the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency's space hazards research while helping students to ...

Human Asteroid Mission Design Competition / GSP / About Us / ESA

There are growing interests and support for a potential human asteroid mission in the future, as this will provide the next logical phase after the Earth-Moon ...

esasearch / ESA

Herschel intercepts asteroid Apophis / Space Science / Our Activities ... 9 Jan 2013 ... Catalogued as asteroid (99942) Apophis (previously 2004 MN4), it is often ...