Asteroid 2023
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NASA said Friday that its Psyche mission (named after the asteroid the mission is targeting) has been rescheduled to October next year. The news comes just a few months after the agency announced that it would definitively miss its planned 2022 launch attempt. The delayed schedule is due to late delivery of key components of the spacecraft, including the flight software and testing equipment. The launch window for this year concluded on October 11. Show NASA conducted an internal review to determine whether the mission could launch next year, in addition to a separate independent review commissioned by the agency to examine the failures that led to missing the launch window. It appears that the review determined that next year’s launch is a go. While the launch window has changed, NASA said the flight profile will be similar: The spacecraft will use Martian gravity in 2026 to propel the spacecraft toward the asteroid Psyche. If the mission does move forward next year, the spacecraft is targeted to arrive at the asteroid in August 2029. The mission, which is being led by Arizona State University, will explore the metal asteroid dubbed “Psyche” located between Mars and Jupiter. It was chosen for exploration because scientists believe it is the nickel-iron core of an earlier planet, making it a rich target for understanding how our own planet came to exist. Folks with asteroid mining ambitions, of course, undoubtedly also have their interest piqued. Total mission costs, including launch, are $985 million; of that, $717 million had been spent as of June. Two additional projects were scheduled to launch with Psyche: a NASA mission called Janus, to explore a twin binary asteroid system, and a technology demonstration of high-data-rate laser communication data. The latter has already been integrated with the Psyche spacecraft and will launch with it, but NASA is still exploring options for Janus. In February 2020, NASA announced it had awarded the launch contract to SpaceX for a value of $117 million. The agency booked a ride on a Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket currently in operation and which has only flown three times in its history. (The fourth could take place as early as next week.) A man claiming to be a time traveler in America said a giant asteroid is coming towards Earth. The asteroid is expected to approach Earth in 2023. This individual claims that the asteroid is half the size of the moon. However, scientists have yet to prove this claim. (Photo :
Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images) Asteroid To Pass By Earth In 2023, Time Traveler ClaimsAccording to a netizen who clamed to be a time traveler from 2269, a giant space rock will pass by Earth in 2023. The individual uses the handle @_time_traveller_2269 on Tiktok. The TikToker claimed that the asteroid's radius might be as large as 868.7 kilometers. Sharing the warning in a 10-second video, the user said (per Daily Star): "This is no joke!! I am a time traveler from the year 2269. Social media users were divided on the claim. Some individuals stated that the warning should be taken seriously, while others felt that the claim was incorrect. The rest of the netizens, on the other hand, appeared unconcerned with the news. One user complimented the time traveler and warned others not to do the same." However, the alleged time traveler was primarily mocked for issuing the warning. One jokingly commented, "I'm a time traveler from 1963; sorry I'm late." Another asked: "And I'm Mickey Mouse? Did u get the lottery numbers by any chance?" @tiktok|https://www.tiktok.com/@_time_traveler_2269_/video/7097305362541415685?_t=8SKIucp0hC2&_r=1@ ALSO READ: Asteroid Flyby This May: Space Rock Larger Than Empire State Building Will Pass Near Earth on Sunday Other Space Rocks To Pass By Earth This MonthThe announcement comes after astronomers warn that a massive asteroid is on its way to Earth. The giant space rock Asteroid 388945 (2008 TZ3) will approach Earth on May 16, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which is monitoring it. According to NDTV, the asteroid is also 1,608 feet wide. The Empire State Building in New York is 1,454 feet tall. It's also bigger than the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower combined. If the space rock collides with the Earth, it may cause widespread devastation. The space rock is considered "potentially hazardous" by experts, Republic World reported. According to estimates from space specialists, it will pass us by at a distance of 2.5 million miles on May 27.
Although "potentially hazardous," experts assured that the people have nothing to worry about because it will pass by at a safe distance of around 4 million kilometers, more than 10 times the distance between the Earth and the moon. Surprisingly, the space rock was photographed by the Virtual Telescope days before it made its closest approach to Earth. According to astronomer Gianluca Masi, this asteroid is 1.8 kilometers large and was observed at a distance of 18.7 million kilometers from Earth. As its name implies, the asteroid was discovered in 1989 by astronomer Eleanor Helin of the Palomar Observatory in California. RELATED ARTICLE: Great Pyramid-Sized Asteroid to Pass By Earth Friday; Space Rock Used to Be A Threat But Was Removed From Top 10 Risk List Check out more news and information on Space in Science Times. ©2021 ScienceTimes.com All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. The window to the world of science times. Is there an asteroid coming in 2024?2024 McLaughlin, provisional designation 1952 UR, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometer in diameter.
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2024 McLaughlin.. Is there an asteroid coming in 2022?Astronomers say they have discovered the largest planet killer-sized asteroid in eight years, and that the huge space rock will cross Earth's orbit. The asteroid, named 2022 AP7, was reported by researchers looking for space rocks within the orbits of Earth and Venus.
Is there an asteroid about to hit Earth?“There are no known [sizable] asteroids on a collision course with Earth for the foreseeable future. NASA always makes information about NEOs available at cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry,” said Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
How big is the 2027 asteroid?An asteroid, named "2019 PDC", was discovered that will come dangerously close to the earth 8 years from now, on April 29, 2027. The space rock is between 330 and 1000 feet in size, somewhere in between the length of 6.5 school buses to the height of two Washington Monuments stacked on top of each other.
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