Asteroid
Earth Trojan Asteroid
The Trojan asteroids are those asteroids that share a common orbit with a planet in the solar system. These rocks circle the same star as that of the planet in the same path. So far only one Trojan asteroid was ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Asteroid 1994 PC1
The asteroid 1994 PC1 is to pass by earth on January 18, 2022. It will pass by at a distance of 1.2 million miles. This is five times the distance between moon and the earth. Therefore, the asteroid will not ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
NASA’s Lucy Mission- Key Facts
American Space Agency, NASA, is set to send its first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Key Points Spacecraft will be launched from “Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida” on October 16, 2021. This spacecraft would obtain new insights into ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2021
Asteroid 16 Psyche
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA has found that 16 Psyche asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is made of rare metals such as gold, cobalt, platinum, rhenium and iridium. The total worth of the precious metals in the ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020
China: World’s First Asteroid Mining Robot to be launched
China is set to launch the first asteroid mining robot in the world by November 2020. The main objective of the mission is to assess capabilities of robots in asteroid mining. The robot will identify and extract valuable resources. Highlights ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020
Asteroid 465824
NASA has been tracking asteroid 465824 2010 FR, which is twice as big as the Pyramid of Giza and is expected to cross the Earth’s orbit on September 6. It is classified as a Near-Earth Object (NEO) and a potentially hazardous ..