South Africa's powerful new telescope can detect "city killer" asteroids
The National Research Foundation's South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in Sutherland in the Northern Cape now hosts one of four telescopes that form part of the Nasa-funded Atlas asteroid alert system.
Atlas, or...
asteroid terrestrial impact last alert system
atlas
department of science and innovation (dsi)
national aeronautics and space administration (nasa)
national research foundation (nrf)
south african astronomical observatory (saao)
willie koorts
Higgs boson discovery all but confirmed
CERN has announced that the particle it discovered in July 2012 “is looking more and more like a Higgs Boson”, but that it must still confirm if it’s the Higgs from the Standard Model of physics.