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.
Apr 7th: Eric’s Night & Close
Tag: asteroid
Mar 31st: Dancing With Earth & Colliding Planets
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.
Mar 24th: Catching Shadows & Tough Guy
Students can join the hunt for TNO occultations and more about 2016 LV47
Mar 5th: What’s the Best Way to Defend Our Planet?
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?
Mar 3rd: Raw Asteroid & Odds of Aliens
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?
Feb 25th: Earth/Venus Express & Pale Blue Dot
The discovery of 2016 HD3 and the Pale Blue Dot moment by Voyager
Feb 19th: What Goes Into Sample Return Missions From Asteroids & Comets?
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?
Feb 4th: Tough Tourist & Born Wild
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.
Jan 28th: Potential Mining Target & Incoming
Today story is about the discovery of asteroid 2016 GC221 for mining target & 2016 CG18 as a test object for rapid response observing protocols.
Jan 21st: Asteroid Awareness & Anatomy Of An Extinction Crater
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?