Today @cosmicsavannah discuss about ATLAS and its discovery of near-Earth object (NEO) with Dr. Nicolas Erasmus from SAAO.
Aug 28th: ATLAS, Holding Up the Heavens!
Tag: asteroid
Aug 20th: Touching the Sun & 20 Years
Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface of our Sun. This is what Parker Solar Probe doing. More at #365DaysoFastro
Aug 18th: Mass Extinction, Volcanoes, and Rings Around an Asteroid
Today ESVN discuss about mass extinction, volcanoes, star formation, galaxy dissolution, and space mission synchronized observing. Also a closer look at dark energy and dark matter and giant galaxies in the early universe.
Aug 13th: Last One & Martian Storms
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest and as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface features.
Aug 6th: Double Trouble & Aliens?
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble object is heading for us? Also about life form outside Earth in Milky Way.
Jul 30th: A Large Visitor & Botswana Fragment
Greg Leonard discovered large asteroid more than 1 KM in diameter in the constellation of Perseus and a story about Bostwana fragment.
Jul 23rd: Comet Leonard III & Comet Catalina
Today’s Travelers in the Night talk about an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving through the constellation of Pisces. Also about Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina).
Jul 16th: Earth-Venus Shuttle & Lonely Fragment
A 100 foot diameter asteroid spotted between the orbits of Venus and Earth also a 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago
Jul 9th: Botswana Bound & Peek a Boo Asteroid
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player crossed the orbit of our Moon and nine hours after, it explode over Botswana. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Jul 2nd: Returnee & Martian Asteroid Hunters
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered when it came very close to Earth & the life of an asteroid hunter on Mars will be interesting and exciting.