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.
Today story is about the discovery of asteroid 2016 GC221 for mining target & 2016 CG18 as a test object for rapid response observing protocols.
You are less likely to be injured by a space rock than you might think. But will asteroid dangerous for us on Earth? How about asteroid impact influence life on Earth?
The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Naming Asteroids. In this episode we’ll talk with Peter Jedicke about what asteroids are, their history and the Canadian connection with naming asteroids after amateur astronomers.