Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Asteroid misses Earth by 200,000 miles The asteroid that whizzed by our planet Tuesday is a football-shaped object about the size of an aircraft carrier. Known as YU55,…
Video streaming by Ustream NASA scientists will have a unique observing opportunity with asteroid 2005 YU55, as the space rock safely flies past Earth at a distance slightly closer than the moon on Nov. 8, 2011. At the…
An asteroid the size of a city block zoomed inside the moon’s orbit today (Nov. in a rare flyby that marked the closest approach to Earth by such a big space rock in 35 years. The asteroid 2005 YU55 came…
The Three Major Types of Telescope By Daniel Brian Stewart Currently there are three main varieties of telescope existing today, each individual one with their own unique variety of benefits and disadvantages. The three types of telescopes are refracting telescopes,…
At the end of October 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an electric multicopter at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. The flight lasted one minute and 30 seconds, after which the constructor and…