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.
Students can join the hunt for TNO occultations and more about 2016 LV47
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?
The discovery of 2016 HD3 and the Pale Blue Dot moment by Voyager
Scientists have retrieved samples from other objects in the Solar System, including comets and asteroids. What does it take to return a piece of rock from space, and what have we learned so far?
Meteorites on Earth as well as the cratering on Moon, Mercury, Mars, and other bodies suggest that our solar system was born wild and stayed that way for a while.