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16/04/2025 Lecture 6 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

Ever Wonder Why Some Meteor Showers Are So Unpredictable?

April 16, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper published online in the journal Icarus this week, two SETI Institute researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the kick they receive from a moving Sun.

10/04/2025 Lecture 6 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

Seti Institute In The News: March Roundup

31/03/2025 Lecture 4 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

In The Pinball World Of Asteroids

March 31, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, an international team of researchers describe the circumstances of the fall and show that mudball meteorites are not necessarily weak.

18/03/2025 Lecture 7 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

Meteorites: A Geologic Map Of The Asteroid Belt

09/09/2024 Lecture 1 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

New Meteor Shower In The Constellation Cassiopeia

In the early morning of September 4, there was a brief meteor shower outburst visible over California and Arizona with a radiant in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was recorded by low-light video cameras in the CAMS networks led by Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and Nick Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory). The outburst revealed a weak annual shower that had not been mapped before, with a possible earlier outburst in 2014. The shower was caused by the crumbs of a yet-to-be discovered comet in a …

22/08/2024 Lecture 6 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

Meteor Showers Shed Light On Where Comets Formed In The Early Solar System

20/08/2024 Lecture 4 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

New Meteor Shower During This Year’S Perseids

05/02/2024 Lecture 5 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

Asteroid That Impacted Near Berlin Identified As A Rare Aubrite

30/01/2024 Lecture 2 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

Asteroid 2024 Bx1 Successfully Recovered After Berlin Impact

The asteroid that made its impact near Berlin last Sunday has now been successfully recovered. In a significant find, our team, including Dr. Peter Jenniskens from the SETI Institute, located two samples of the asteroid 2024 BX1 this afternoon. This discovery brings the total number of recovered meteorites from this event to four. Polish meteorite enthusiasts Filip Samuel Nikodem, Michal Nebelski, Kryspin Kmieciak, and Kazimierz Magneto had made headlines yesterday with their recovery of an ast…

31/10/2023 Lecture 5 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

The First ‘Birder’S Guide’ To Meteor Showers

October 31, 2023, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute is proud to announce a new book by SETI Institute meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens. Called "Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers," this comprehensive guide describes over 500 meteor showers that appear in our night skies and adds a wealth of detail to the tapestry of our solar system.

22/09/2023 Lecture 4 min

Source de l'article : SETI Institute

Osiris-Rex To Deliver Bennu’S Parcel Sunday!

In 2016, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft embarked on a mission to the asteroid Bennu to collect a sample from the asteroid’s surface and return it to Earth. The successful collection took place in 2020, stowing the sample in a specially designed return capsule and setting up the first asteroid sample return managed by NASA.

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