A flash back to India’s Mars Orbiter Mission and the story of Asteroid 2008 TC3, the only asteroid which was observed to be hurtling between planets, flying through our atmosphere, and pieces of it found to be lying on the Earth’s Surface.
Imagine a world where people are never able to see the Milky Way or a meteor streaking like a falling star in the night sky. For most of the people living in the Earth’s cities this has already happened.
The Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, AZ was used to discover two close approaching space rocks. Martian meteorites found on Earth come from the 34 mile diameter Mojave Crater on Mars.
Before artificial lighting many people knew the night sky the way humans of today know their favorite TV channels.
In the cold deserts of Antarctica nature collects meteorites as ice sheets carrying space rocks are pushed up against mountains
About one out of a thousand meteorites that you find on Earth started out on the Moon & the history of our part of the Universe is written in the space rocks
Two planets orbiting a nearby reddish star & up close and personal with a comet
When a distant planet passes in front of its star some of the star’s radiation goes through the planet’s atmosphere. What would your day be like if you woke up and there were no functioning artificial Earth satellites?
Today @Nmcanopus will talk about Mars climate which has changed dramatically over the eons and what would the space alien receive if it pointed its radio antennas at our Sun?
Beyond, what solar system scientists now call the “snow line”, 4.6 billion years ago, crystals of ice formed and were trapped inside accreting chunks of material
The discovery of 2019 UN13 moving through the constellation of Aries and 2019 UJ12 and Cetus.