NASA has designed and proposed the NEOCam spacecraft to give us the ability to potentially hazardous asteroids them before they find us.
Jun 4th: Hammer & Comets and Asteroids
May 28th: 30 Years of Fireballs & Greg’s Comet
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send in your report to the American Meteor Society and become a citizen scientist
May 21st: Nuking An Asteroid & Cloud 7
Even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth.
May 14th: Christmas Comet & Asteroid Homestead
On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave a Christmas present in the form of a comet.
May 7th: Long Winter’s Nights & Meteor Whispers
Today travelers in the Night discuss about long winters night good seeing for asteroid hunters makes new discoveries and about electrophonic meteors produce simultaneous light and sound
Apr 30th: Seeds & Laser Surfing
Today’s Travelers in the night will tell a story about carrying libraries of our planet’s DNA and the seeds of plants as connection between past life, the inorganic world, and future life. Also a search chemical signs of living organisms in exoplanet’s atmosphere
Apr 23rd: ET’s Cigar & Dry Sands
The first alien object to observed visiting our solar system arrives from truly deep space and leaves us with the mystery of what it is and how it got that way. Plus intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons.
Apr 16th: Odd Ball & Red Dwarf Planets
A small asteroid soars into the lonely space high above and below the plane of our solar system and earth like planets being discovered circling red dwarf stars.
Apr 9th: Alien Rock & Extraterrestrial Whales
Today’s Travelers in the Night discuss about the alien space rock that visit Solar System, and the possible reason we haven’t detected alien civilizations