2016 was another record year for asteroid hunters where they discovered 1,894 new Earth approaching objects. And large space rock can approach the Earth & appeared as a bright star
Mar 9th: Asteroids 2016 & Suddenly Bright
Travelers in the Night Archive
Mar 2nd: Newborn Planets & Marrakech
Today Travelers in the Night tell us stories about ALMA imaging protoplanetary disk & The Moroccan Oukaimeden Sky Survey discovery of asteroids & comets.
Feb 23rd: Dust Stories & Big Splash
Micrometeorites can be collected from a roof’s gutter! And another story about what would happen if a large impactor hit our oceans.
Feb 16th: WOW! What a Ride & Dangerous Comet
Richard Kowalski discovered a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid and the real impact danger to Earth comes from comets, not asteroids.
Feb 9th: Caves of Mars & Lost and Found
Today’s Travelers in the Night talk about large reservoirs of water in lava tubes on Mars and about asteroids get lost and rediscovered
Feb 2nd: Weird Centaur & Psyche Water
The discovery of another centaur, 2016 WM48 and the story about Asteroid (16) Psyche
Jan 26th: What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth & Scary Space Rock
Today’s Travelers in the Night is about pulverize a small asteroid so that it would not enter the Earth’s atmosphere & about the 2023 VS3.
Jan 19th: Psyche Bound & Two Comets
Psyche Spacecraft will use multiple instruments to map, measure, and characterize an unknown weird world & Carson Fuls discovered two comets.
Jan 12th: 3 Close Approaches & Naming Asteroids and Comets
Today’s Traveling in the Sky tells story about three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system during a six hour period
Jan 5th: Discovery and Recovery & Loss and Gain
New observations linked with observations 10 years earlier about 2013 TG6’s orbital elements & Catalina Sky Survey search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet.