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.
Students can join the hunt for TNO occultations and more about 2016 LV47
Does 2016 EJ203 a TNO object? And lets learn more about polar vortex winds and the stratospheric polar night jet wind.
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?
The discovery of 2016 HD3 and the Pale Blue Dot moment by Voyager
Covered by a blanket of lunar soil to protect it from BB sized meteoroids arriving a gunshot speeds, a village is nestled in a large crater on our moon. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Some lunar craters are new and that means the Moon being hit by another object. Also Jupiter protecting the Earth. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Today story is about the discovery of asteroid 2016 GC221 for mining target & 2016 CG18 as a test object for rapid response observing protocols.
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?
Today Travelers in the Night will share a story from the past about the close encounter of Comet P/2016 BA14 with Earth and Earth’s motion as a key to understand climate change