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2020 Asteroid Day LIVE – Preparing for the Future: Making Tools to Investigate Asteroids

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There is growing interest in near-earth objects (NEOs) with many scientific communities now intent on learning more about these smaller celestial objects. Interest ranges from the science that can be…

2020 Asteroid Day LIVE – Ingredients of Life: Bringing Asteroid Samples to Earth

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The more asteroids that astronomers visit, the more they realise that these space rocks are each as unique as human individuals. And just like human being, each of them have…

2020 Asteroid Day LIVE – Target Asteroid: How to Move an Incoming Space Rock

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In December 1694, the Royal Society in London convened what was essentially a secret meeting. Astronomer Edmund Halley was the speaker and, on the promise that what he said would…

2020 Asteroid Day LIVE – Seeing Is Believing: the Art of Asteroid Computer Simulations

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A comparison of two interstellar objects traveling through out solar system. Ever since the discovery of the first asteroid, Ceres in 1801, these enigmatic space rocks have been reluctant to…

2020 Asteroid Day LIVE – From Satellites to Asteroids, Luxembourg & Esa’s Roles

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Cubesat Hover Luxembourg has established itself as a European centre for space industry and for the past 15 years has worked in close partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA).…