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Oct 25th: Witnessing An Asteroid Impact & Shine Little Asteroid, Shine
Oct 18th: MOM Reaches Mars & Space Rocks
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.
Oct 7th: Awesome Astronomy October 2020 News Round Up
Time for sky guide and news roundup with @AwesomeAstoPod. We have exoplanet in another galaxy, liquid water on Mars, exoplanet around white dwarf and the Sun get more active again.
Oct 4th: Two Space Rocks In A Week & Martian Meteorites
The Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, AZ was used to discover two close approaching space rocks. Martian meteorites found on Earth come from the 34 mile diameter Mojave Crater on Mars.
Aug 26th: All Things Ceres
Join us today as we cover all the news about Ceres revealing the existence of a salty subsurface ocean and active cryovolcanism
Aug 23rd: Fossil Ice & Catastrophic Wreckage
Beyond, what solar system scientists now call the “snow line”, 4.6 billion years ago, crystals of ice formed and were trapped inside accreting chunks of material
Aug 16th: Close Space Rock & Tough Space Rock
Aug 9th: Ancient Crater & October Fest
The use of Barlangi Rock as a sharp tools by Aboriginal people and the discovery of 240 Earth approaching asteroids by Catalina Sky Survey
Aug 2nd: Pre-Autumnal Harvest & Heavy Traffic
Today we have stories about 23 Earth approaching objects and four small space rocks zipped through the Earth-Moon neighborhood.