From the medieval portends of doom to the space age, we know they’ve been devastating the solar system for billions of years. But what are they?
Sep 19th: Life Giving & Life Taking Comets
Tag: comet
Sep 15th: Sensing A Comet & Close One
Today we have stories about using Rosetta to create watercolor paintings, sculptures, a musical collaboration, and smell of comet
Aug 11th: Alex’s Catch & Teddy’s Debut
Jul 28th: Africano & Cuban Meteorites
Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet in the constellation of Ursa Major & a story about large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba
Jul 7th: Collision & Tiny Visitor
Astronomers working with the ATLAS project reported that the perviously normally appearing asteroid 6478 Gault now has a 250,000 mile long straight tail!
Jun 9th: Rose Rules & Disintegrating Comet
Today’s Travelers in the Night discuss about asteroid discoveries by Rose Matheny & a break up comet from a far
Jun 2nd: Strange Comet & Screaming Aten
Ring in a comet and the fast moving Aten 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.
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?
Jan 7th: Could Be Twins & Spray Paints
Today Travelers in the night take you to discuss about a pair of possibly related comets pass unusually close to Earth and a gentle method of causing an asteroid to miss planet Earth.