Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface of our Sun. This is what Parker Solar Probe doing. More at #365DaysoFastro
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest and as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface features.
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble object is heading for us? Also about life form outside Earth in Milky Way.
Greg Leonard discovered large asteroid more than 1 KM in diameter in the constellation of Perseus and a story about Bostwana fragment.
Today’s Travelers in the Night talk about an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving through the constellation of Pisces. Also about Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina).
A 100 foot diameter asteroid spotted between the orbits of Venus and Earth also a 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player crossed the orbit of our Moon and nine hours after, it explode over Botswana. More at #365DaysOfAstro
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered when it came very close to Earth & the life of an asteroid hunter on Mars will be interesting and exciting.
Today’s Travelers in the Night discuss about asteroid exiled to the outer region of the Solar System and asteroid discovery whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth.
Today Traveler in the Night will explore TESS that will monitor more than 200,000 nearby to find new planet and may be habitable worlds