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This site, created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, contains relevant information on Near Earth Objects (NEO). The site includes current tables with tracking data for potentially hazardous asteroids and their approaches towards earth, detailed information of recent NEO discoveries, and images of the objects themselves. Six key resources are prominently featured on the main page of this resource. Other links such as image, news and related resources are also provided. Most of these resources require a Java installation.
Summary
| Subject keyword(s) | asteriods, Astronomy, comets, Science -- Astronomy, Science -- Space sciences, Solar System, Space Science |
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| Grade level | High School, Higher Education, Informal Education, Vocational/Professional Development Education |
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| Intended audience | Educator, Learner |
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| Resource type | Collection, Dataset, Instructional Material, Reference Material |
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| Resource format | application, text, text/html |
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| Rights | Has a copyright or other licensing restriction. |
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| Title | ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education |
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| Link | http://www.compadre.org/ |
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| Description | ComPADRE is a set of communities of teachers and students in physics and astronomy and web-based collections of resources to support their needs. The communities supported by ComPADRE are groups that can benefit from the sharing of materials, information, and experiences in a web environment. Example communities include teachers of specific physics or astronomy courses, societies of undergraduate physics and astronomy students, and teachers addressing specific grade levels, such as high-school or middle-school teachers. Resources included in the collections are chosen to enhance the teaching and learning experience, and include multimedia learning objects, lesson plans, tutorials, laboratories and other student activities, and discussion forums on the use of these materials. The different collections are organized under the ComPADRE umbrella, which provides a central database (the Physical Sciences Resource Center), technical support, support for collection editors and community leaders, and the means to coordinate efforts across the communities. |
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| Title | AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository |
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| Link | http://amser.org/ |
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| Description | AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for those in community and technical colleges, but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout. |
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Content contained within the resource
+ View the NASA Portal NASA Captures New Images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Passing Earth November 7,8 & 11, 2011 NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth.The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. Scientists have also generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55 See Asteroid Images See Asteroid Movie See Updated Asteroid Movie NASA in Final Preparations for Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby October 26, 2011 NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. Scientists are treating the flyby of the 1,300-foot-wide (400-meter) asteroid as a science target of opportunity - allowing instruments on "spacecraft Earth" to scan it during the close pass. Full Story NASA Says Comet Elenin Gone and Should Be Forgotten October 25, 2011 Comet Elenin is no more.Latest indications are this relatively small comet has broken into even smaller, even less significant, chunks of dust and ice. This trail of piffling particles will remain on the same path as the original comet, completing its unexceptional swing through the inner solar system this fall. Full Story 2010 TK7: The First Earth Trojan Asteroid July 29, 2011 After years of searching, astronomers have finally found an Earth Trojan asteroid, 2010 TK7. A team led by Martin Connors of Athabasca University in Canada announced the discovery in the current issue of the journal Nature. Full Story Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011 June 23, 2011 Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above theEarth's surface on Monday June 27 at about 1:00 PM EDT.The asteroid was discovered by the LINEAR near-Earth object discovery teamobserving from Socorro, New Mexico. Full Story Comet Elenin: Preview of a Coming Attraction May 4, 2011 You may have heard the news: Comet Elenin is coming to the inner-solar system this fall."Comet Elenin will not encounter any dark bodies that could perturb its orbit, nor will it influence us in any way here on Earth," said Yeomans. "It will get no closer to Earth than 35 million kilometers [about 22 million miles]." Full Story Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Approach Earth on November 8, 2011 March 10, 2011 Near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass within 0.85 lunar distances from the Earth on November 8, 2011. The upcoming close approach by this relatively large 400 meter-sized, C-type asteroid presents an excellent opportunity for synergistic ground-based observations including optical, near infrared and radar data. Full Story Asteroid 2011 CQ1 Makes Close Earth Approach on February 4, 2011 February 4, 2011 Asteroid 2011 CQ1 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on February 4 and made a record close Earth approach 14 hours later on February 4 at 19:39 UT (14:39 EST). It passed to within 0.85 Earth radii (5480 km) of the Earth's surface over a region in the mid-Pacific. This object, only about one meter in diameter, is the closest non-impacting object in our asteroid catalog to date. Full Story Site Manager: Don Yeomans Webmaster: Ron Baalke Last Updated:
