Rose Matheny is at it again! This time she’s discovered 4 close approaching asteroids. And the story about seasons as the drivers of where you are from and where you live
Jul 14th: Close Passes & Tilted History
Tag: asteroid
Jul 7th: Collision & Tiny Visitor
Astronomers working with the ATLAS project reported that the perviously normally appearing asteroid 6478 Gault now has a 250,000 mile long straight tail!
Jun 30th: One Thousand & Home Wrecker
Today’s Travelers in the Night will tell stories about the discovery of more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a single year and extremely remote chance of dangerous mountain sized space rock
Jun 23rd: Lunar Space Rock & Comets Africano
Today’s Travelers in the NIght will tell a story about the discovery of Earth approaching asteroid which indicated as a rock being ejected from the Moon by the impact of an asteroid or comet long ago. Also about Comet C/2018 V4 Africano’s last visit to the inner solar system
Jun 16th: From Luna & Dangerous Duo
Lunar meteorites and two Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Jun 9th: Rose Rules & Disintegrating Comet
Today’s Travelers in the Night discuss about asteroid discoveries by Rose Matheny & a break up comet from a far
Jun 6th: The Observer’s Calendar for June 2024
This month’s @ActualAstronomy observer calendar talk about Asteroids, Lunar X and Straight wall plus Alister’s Anomalous Moon For June.
Jun 2nd: Strange Comet & Screaming Aten
Ring in a comet and the fast moving Aten asteroid
May 26th: Greg’s Comet & Comet Lemmon
Today Travelers in the Night tell a story about the discovery of P/2018 VN2 (Leonard), a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid and Comet Lemmon
May 19th: Close Again & Busy Night
As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to suggest where to find pieces of one of them on the ground.