Today Travelers in the Night talk about the discovery of two large ghostly neighbors at the L4 and L5 and a powerful solar eruption
May 5th: Dust Moons & Space Weather
Travelers in the Night Archive
Apr 28th: Mtn Ops & Close Space Rocks
Today we have story about Steward Observatory’s Mountain Lemmon Operations that helps Catalina Sky Survey to discover many asteroids. Also about 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter.
Apr 21st: Dark Trails & Mars Impactor
Today Travelers in the Night discuss about a meteor streaking across the sky and burns up some 60 miles above us also about the 43 meteoroids struck in 2015
Apr 14th: Very Close One & Aten
Today’s Travelers in the Night tell us a story about the discovery of Toyota RAV4 sized space rock streaking through the constellation of Pegasus and Aten asteroid
Apr 7th: Eric’s Night & Close
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.
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?