The discovery of 10 foot diameter asteroid using University of Arizona 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon.

The discovery of 10 foot diameter asteroid using University of Arizona 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon.
Some months the asteroid hunting community finds more than a half dozen small asteroids that pass closer to the Earth than our Moon.
Today on #365DaysOfAstro: the phantom meteor shower probably caused by Comet Blanpain. Another issue: target asteroid for students.
It has been traditional for an asteroid to be named by its discoverer. But new opportunities arise for students to discover and name asteroids. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. It’s not Superman, it is a meteoroid. More at #365DaysOfAstro
A flash back to India’s Mars Orbiter Mission and the story of Asteroid 2008 TC3, the only asteroid which was observed to be hurtling between planets, flying through our atmosphere, and pieces of it found to be lying on the Earth’s Surface.
Imagine a world where people are never able to see the Milky Way or a meteor streaking like a falling star in the night sky. For most of the people living in the Earth’s cities this has already happened.