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The opening ceremony of Tokyo 2020 made a massive impact when seemingly out of nowhere a rogue planet (actually, our own) appeared in the sky over the Olympic stadium. A shimmering ring gate made of hundreds of drones had morphed into a slowly rotating Earth, like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. In tribute …
From helium-3, lithium, iron, nickel and titanium, to tylium, turbinium, pergium, berynium and opus, whether nudging an asteroid too close to Earth, cloning lunar miners to save costs, or mining the outer reaches of the Solar System to survive, here are some movies and TV shows about mining in space. This list is presented in …
A useful graphic showing the largest objects in the asteroid belt โ the first 22 objects in decreasing size from dwarf planet 1 Ceres to 7 Iris ...
Compiling a list of every asteroid and comet disaster movie ever made is no easy feat. First, you need to identify potential candidates, then you have to watch them all, which can be a somewhat tougher job than finding them. Much like asteroids and comets themselves, there's a whole spectrum of content in these dramas, …
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Graphics showing all of the asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft...
It's the end of the year and one particular tabloid newspaper is again warning us that it could soon be the end of the world โ yes, asteroid 2019 AE3 is in our vicinity and the apocalypse is coming. In keeping with the tabloid drama, here's a link to IMPACT! โ a compendium of all …
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I once read a quote in a conference abstract that stated the paper had been written to serve as โa historical guide to the asteroid literature for the perplexedโ. That quote sums up my desire to write this piece about the history of asteroid classification and the schemes currently in use. When asteroid spectral types …
More than 100 years have passed since the first film was shown in movie theatres that depicted a rock from space wreaking havoc on Earthโalthough in that case it was a comet rather than an asteroid making an impact. That movie, a silent black and white film called The End of the World, released in …
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