Asteroid Day 2023
For Asteroid Day 2023, NEOROCKS ends the project by publishing its results in the Final Edition of the NEWSLETTER and launching the Tumbling Stone Revival on its website.
Our NEOROCKERS are busy across Europe:
- “Ask the planetologist” (in Italian), at Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta e Planetario, 29th June
- Meeting with amateur astronomers Astroclubul București, at National Geology Museum, Bucharest, 30th June
Asteroid Day 2022
NEOROCKS events and presentations all over Europe for Asteroid Day 2022!
First up Futuro24, the scientific section of Italian national TV channel RAI, leads us into Asteroid Day with a session on “Defending the Earth from Asteroids”, featuring NEOROCKS and our very own Project Coordinator Elisabetta Dotto. It also introduces us to the NASA Dart mission to redirect an asteroid, the LICIACube cubesat and the ESA HERA Mission.
Then, take a trip to Stromboli with Ettore Perozzi from the Italian Space Agency. Mixing asteroids and culture……
And for all you mini-neorockers, we haven’t forgotten about you!! Our Asteroid Day special newsletter is all for you. Download here the English version of “Ask the Neorockers” mini-newsletter that answers all your questions about Asteroids. The Italian version is also available for download here!
Asteroid Day 2021
Neorocks4Kids premiered for Asteroid Day 2021, with a series of videos designed to introduce children to asteroids, NEOs, asteroid names and telescopes. Videos are available in English and with subtitles in Spanish and Italian.
Asteroid Day 2020
You can learn something about Asteroids, NEOs and NEOROCKS with us from our presentations during Asteroid Day 2020.
Material in Italian:
- RaiNews24 “Futuro24” programme explains Asteroid Day and the potential threat to earth. NEOROCK’s own Davide Perna (INAF) explains what NEOROCKS does to identify and characterise NEOS.
- ESA Italy’s Planetary Defense session, with a whole range of special guests, including our coordinator Elisabetta Dotto (INAF) and some music.
- INAF’s Luna Blu series: Davide Perna and Albino Carbognani (INAF) on front line asteroid research: observation, discoveries, characterisation, orbit) and Elisabetta Dotto (INAF) and Ettore Perozzi (ASI) on what would happen if there was a real asteroid collision alarm?
Material in Spanish:
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias talks on Nature, Threats and Opportunities from the little solar system bodies
Material in French:
- Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur presents Asteroids – Little bodies, big history
Newsletter
The first issue of our NEOROCKS Newsletter is available! Download the full copy here!
Or check out the various articles in this issue:
- Editorial, by Elisabetta Dotto (INAF-Osservatorio di Roma)
- Data Mining, by Benoit Carry (Observatoire del la Cote d’Azur)
- Don’t Panic and Look Up! by Ettore Perozzi (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana)
- Tumbling Stone Revisited: the First NEO and the Origin of Chaos, by Giovanni B. Valsecchi (INAF)
- Neorocks4Kids – Once Upon a Time, by Jessica Huntingford and Sara Banchi (Resolvo)
- Meet the Neorockers