A Pint of Science with NEOROCKS
Happy to announce the participation of our Neorocker Davide Perna at the “Pint of Science Festival, finaly back live between 9-11 May 2022. An exciting event, across 23 Italian cities and across the world, where researchers chat about science over a pint. Davide will be at Flanagan's Frascati talk about Asteroids and Life on Earth: Past, Present and Future (with a shout
May Newsletter from NEOCC
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released its May newsletter. Download it here
Neorocks4Kids Polish Version
Our Neorocks4Kids videos now have Polish Subtitles. Calling all you Polish mini-Neorockers: Here you can watch Introducing asteroids, here Naming the asteroids and here all about Telescopes! Happy watching! Miłego oglądania!
April Newsletter from NEOCC
The ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre has released its April newsletter. Download it here
Second transient Earth Trojan
Good morning Neorockers and friends! Starting the day by sharing important developments in the asteroid world. Until now, we knew for sure that only one asteroid Earth Trojan (2010 TK7) existed. Ground-breaking research has changed this, with the confirmation that 2020 XL5 is in fact the second transient Earth Trojan. In this recently published article, you can find out more about the
Don’t panic and look up!
Have you watched Don’t look up and are you wondering what would happen in real life with a NEO targeting Earth? Our NEROCKER Ettore Perozzi from the Italian Space Agency can help us understand the difference between fiction and reality. On the one hand, rather than relying on manual calculations performed by a single team of astronomers, in real life, interconnected nets
DART, the first mission to deflect an asteroid, has been launched!
Today is an important day in the asteroid world! NASA’s DART mission has been launched to test an asteroid deflection technique, targeting the Didymos binary asteroid system. Today, the European Space Agency is involved too, as the first signals coming from the space craft will be captured by the ESA’s NNO-2 antenna, measuring 4.5 metres across and located in New Norcia, Western
Calling all budding young writers!
Know any primary and secondary school children that love writing and space? Also
NEOROCKS @ EPSC 2021
Our Neorockers were out in force at the Europlanet Science Congress (13 – 24 September 2021) and you can find all their presentations on our new Scientific Outputs page (which we are very proud of, so check it out!!!). Photo by Tamara Gak on Unsplash
Two new asteroid names…
Remember we told you about the naming of the Asteroids in our #NEOROCKS4Kids video, with the Italian Space Agency. We said that Asteroids could be named by the person that discovered them and could be named after whoever deserves a place in the sky. Well, who could be more deserving that the health and civil protection services that have been by