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A plan to manage asteroid mining wins Schweickart Prize
The $10,000 Schweickart Prize is awarded every June to mark Asteroid Day and draw attention to risks from above — and this year's prize is going to a team of students who are proposing a panel to focus on what could happen when we start tinkering with asteroids.

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https://cosmiclog.com/2025/06/26/a-plan-to-manage-asteroid-mining-wins-schweickart-prize/
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Asteroid will miss Earth — but may set off lunar light show
Although astronomers have ruled out a smash-up between Earth and an asteroid known as 2024 YR4 in the year 2032, the building-sized space rock still has a chance of hitting the moon. In fact, the chances — slight as they are — have doubled in the past month.

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https://cosmiclog.com/2025/04/07/asteroid-will-miss-earth-but-may-set-off-lunar-light-show/
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Schweickart Prize boosts new way to find killer asteroids
Every year on June 30, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of a meteor airburst in 1908 that leveled hundreds of square miles of Siberian forest land. But a more recent meteor blast — and a new plan for getting advance warning of the next one — is receiving some added attenti
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/06/28/schweickart-prize-boosts-new-way-to-find-killer-asteroids/
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Asteroid hunters make 27,500 new finds in old data
A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates — not by making fresh observations of the night sky, but by sifting t
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/05/01/asteroid-hunters-make-27500-new-finds-in-old-data/
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Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them. - Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed s... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/science/asteroids-algorithm-planetary-defense.html #nationaloptical-infraredastronomyresearchlaboratory #telescopesandobservatories #computersandtheinternet #spaceandastronomy #b612foundation #solarsystem #photography #asteroids #luedwardt #research #earth