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

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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
How do we track dangerous asteroids? What can impacts do to us? What do we plan to do if The Big One is headed for us? Is Armageddon a documentary?
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?