This week Travelers in the Night brought you a story about Blinky a.k.a 2015 Jy, the asteroid that had missed the Earth and its collision fragment.
Nov 20th: Blinky & Blinky Revealed
Tag: asteroid
Nov 16th: Dinosaurs Washed Away in Largest Wave to Wrap Earth
As if getting set on fire and tossed into space wasn’t enough, new research finds evidence that after the Chicxulub impact, dinosaurs were also the victims of a massive global tsunami and worldwide earthquakes. Plus, the Milky Way’s stellar graveyard, a new timeline for the Moon’s formation, and this week in space history, we look back at the Meteosat program
Nov 13th: Great Night & Jupiter’s Comet
Today Travelers in the Night will tell a story about the discovery of a dozen new Earth approaching object candidates including 2015 XY1 and Jupiter’s comet 2015 XL128.
Oct 30th: Stretch Marked Moon & Life’s Core
Today we have the story about The end of the line for the moon of a planet is when it reaches the Roche Limit distance from its host and a modern ribosome found in a particular organism is organized into layers
Oct 28th: Weekly Space Hangout News Roundup
Time for October news roundup with WSH Crew. We have DART success story, bizarre cool nebula, reusable rocket, supermassive black hole. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Oct 17th: Smashing Asteroids for Science!
This week we saw the incredible image of DART smashing into asteroid Dimorphous. Beyond avenging the dinosaurs, what can we learn scientifically from this and other asteroid/comet impact missions.
Oct 16th: Toy Asteroid & Stealthy Asteroids
Today we have story about an asteroid small enough to fit under basketball hoop visiting Earth, Moon, & Mars and NEOWISE ability to spot asteroid.
Oct 15th: Deep Astronomy – Asteroid Apophis is Coming in 2029
The Asteroid Apophis is going to get very close to Earth in 2029! How/will it impact us? Apophis is classified as a Potential Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) to Earth and astronomers want to use the event to learn more about how these celestial bodies will affect Earth.
Oct 12th: The DART Mission Successfully Boops Dimorphos
NASA’s DART spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Didymos, targeted the moonlet Dimorphos, and successfully flung itself at the surface. Multiple observations confirm that the system brightened and even managed to resolve a cloud of debris.
Oct 9th: Big Rock & Birthday Asteroid
Today Travelers in the Night discuss about asteroid discoveries by Alex Gibbs and Rose Matheny.