Asteroids

Asteroids: Science with an Impact!

Asteroids and comets and meteors…oh my! Our Solar System is a busy place filled with small bodies in the vast spaces between and beyond the eight planets. Occasionally, these objects impact Earth and affect the life on it—like the dinosaurs! What do we know about asteroids and how can we find them before they find us? Learn more in this live fifteen-minute program hosted by our planetarium presenters in Hohfeld Hall.

Asteroids: Science with an Impact runs Nov 25, 2015 - March 10, 2016.

Check our daily calendar for show times.

In Hohfeld Hall. No passes necessary, all ages welcome.

Want more resources on asteroids and other small stuff in the solar system? Check out these links below:

• Asteroid/Asteroid Belt 

  • Asteroid FAQ

  • NASA's Dawn mission page

    • Includes recent findings, image galleries, information on Dawn's instruments. 

  • JPL's Dawn mission page

    • Includes recent findings, image galleries, information on Dawn's instruments, and educational resources

  • NASA's NEAR-Shoemaker mission 

    • More on the first craft to land on an asteroid, Eros 

  • JAXA's HAYABUSA mission page and HAYABUSA 2 mission page

    • More on the first craft built to land and take off from an asteroid (Itakawa) and its successor mission. 

  • B612 and the Sentinel Mission: sentinelmission.org 

  • Asteroid Day homepage: www.asteroidday.org

• Comets

  • ESA's Rosetta Mission Page

  • ESA's Rosetta Blog

  • Comet 67P

• Meteorites/Meteors/Meteoroids

• Hadean Period 

Want to see the small stuff of the Solar System on the big screen? Be sure to catch the Academy's newest fulldome show Incoming! starting March 11, 2016.