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OSIRIS-REx team members Daniella DellaGiustina, Heather Enos and Dante Lauretta provide an overview of the mission for a Flandrau audience, and Eric Christensen and Vishnu Reddy also share their insights on asteroids.

In anticipation of international Asteroid Day on June 30, Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium will host a Special Presentation about asteroids.

 First Light ceremony for the undergraduate student built RAPTORS telescope at the Lunar and Planetary Lab.

Why should you buy what you can make for yourself?

That's the principle that drove five undergraduate students from the University of Arizona's College of Engineering, led by assistant professor Vishnu Reddy of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, to build two telescopes from the ground up to track satellites and space junk.

A team led by UA astronomer Vishnu Reddy has characterized the smallest known asteroid using Earth-based telescopes. Measuring just six feet across, asteroid 2015 TC25 also is one of the brightest, according to the study.

NEOCam is an infrared telescope that will scan the skies to discover moving objects including asteroids and comets that pose a threat to the Earth. It is a mission proposal that is currently under review by NASA as part of the discovery program. NEOCam will conduct a comprehensive survey of our solar system discovering thousands of new objects. The talk will present an overview of asteroids, how they are discovered, a rationale for studying them and the importance of NEOCam in planetary defense. Presentation will include an interactive asteroid hunting game.

A large asteroid thought to be the metallic core of a destroyed proto-planet appears to have molecules on its surface that shouldn't be there, according to a new study — unless they were delivered by other asteroids.

The University's expertise in everything from the imaging of satellites to data management will be featured at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference.

Researchers have found a record of the ancient moon-forming giant impact observable in stony meteorites, through a combination of data analysis and numerical modeling.