Today’s Travelers in the Night will discuss about how asteroid hunters developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks.
Apr 7th: Eric’s Night & Close
Al Grauer Archive
Mar 31st: Dancing With Earth & Colliding Planets
Today’s Traveler in the Night
discuss about the Earth’s dancing partner and the collisions between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets that produced the place where we live.
Mar 24th: Catching Shadows & Tough Guy
Students can join the hunt for TNO occultations and more about 2016 LV47
Mar 17th: Cool Star Homes & Shooting Star’s Daddy
New planets in nearby red dwarf stars and more about Phaethon asteroids
Mar 10th: Trans Neptunian & Gliding to Space
Does 2016 EJ203 a TNO object? And lets learn more about polar vortex winds and the stratospheric polar night jet wind.
Mar 3rd: Raw Asteroid & Odds of Aliens
A brief about comet C/2014 S3 and what are the odds that humans are the only technological species that has ever arisen in a given volume of space?
Feb 25th: Earth/Venus Express & Pale Blue Dot
The discovery of 2016 HD3 and the Pale Blue Dot moment by Voyager
Feb 18th: Lunar Village & Blinded
Covered by a blanket of lunar soil to protect it from BB sized meteoroids arriving a gunshot speeds, a village is nestled in a large crater on our moon. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Feb 11th: Fresh Lunar Crater & The King
Some lunar craters are new and that means the Moon being hit by another object. Also Jupiter protecting the Earth. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Feb 4th: Tough Tourist & Born Wild
Meteorites on Earth as well as the cratering on Moon, Mercury, Mars, and other bodies suggest that our solar system was born wild and stayed that way for a while.