Asteroid discoveries by Rose Matheny & a break up comet from a far
May 28th: Rose Rules & Disintegrating Comet
Tag: asteroid
May 21st: Strange Comet & Screaming Aten
Ring in a comet and the fast moving Aten asteroid
May 14th: Heavenly Palace & Coming Out of Monsoon
The Heavenly Places lunar mission and the new 2016 QJ44 asteroid.
Apr 21st: Brad Peterson of LUVOIR
Life on Enceladus & Europa?
Apr 9th: Old Girl and Nope! It’s not a threat
Old Girl in Mt. Lemmon Observatory and it’s not a threat
Apr 2nd: No Place Like Home
Earth is so far unique in the cosmos. No place like home!
Feb 25th: Dancing with Earth & Colliding Planets
New moon and planet colissions
Feb 18th: Catching Shadows & Tough Guy
Students can join the hunt for TNO occultations and more about 2016 LV47
Jan 31st: Asteroid Radar Astronomy and Space Missions
Reviewing radar astronomy for near-Earth asteroids imaging and characterization, with a particular focus on targets of past, current, and future space missions.
Jan 30th: Destroy and Rebuild, Pt. 1: The Torino Scale
Let’s talk about some existential threats we face and ways we could recover, starting with the Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads: killer asteroids.