Today’s Travelers in the Night talks about the discovery of 2016 AM2’s path that had a zero distance between it and the Earth’s orbit. Also the discovery of a pair of comets: C/2015 X8 & C/2015 YG1.
Dec 4th: Zero and Deuce
Tag: comet
Nov 13th: Great Night & Jupiter’s Comet
Today Travelers in the Night will tell a story about the discovery of a dozen new Earth approaching object candidates including 2015 XY1 and Jupiter’s comet 2015 XL128.
Oct 30th: Stretch Marked Moon & Life’s Core
Today we have the story about The end of the line for the moon of a planet is when it reaches the Roche Limit distance from its host and a modern ribosome found in a particular organism is organized into layers
Oct 23rd: Carbon Comets & Hot Lunation
Today Travelers in the night discuss about Comet C/2006 W3 and 89 new close approachers.
Oct 17th: Smashing Asteroids for Science!
This week we saw the incredible image of DART smashing into asteroid Dimorphous. Beyond avenging the dinosaurs, what can we learn scientifically from this and other asteroid/comet impact missions.
Sep 24th: Space Boomerang & Comet Showers
Today’s Travelers in the Night talk about the discovery of space boomerang and the change of comet in Oort Cloud orbit.
Sep 4th: Survivor & Star Wanderer
Today, we have the story of asteroid 2015 SK7 and comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) discoveries.
Jul 5th: Comet Storm Due In One Million Years
A star cataloged as Gliese 781 is approaching our solar system and in slightly more than a million years from now, will reach the Oort Cloud, likely disrupting the orbits of icy bodies that could head toward Earth
Jul 24th: Apophis Campaign & Interstellar Travelers
To test techniques for characterizing a newly discovered PHA, scientists treat Apophis as an unknown object when it became detectable. And story about interstellar traveler.
Jun 12th: Good Night & Triple Comet
Today story come from Teddy Pruyne and Worachate Boonplod discoveries of asteroid and comet.