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309E-328-The Heat is On
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has published an extensive data based review, analysis, and summary of the Earth's Climate. 2016 …
1 year, 4 months ago
821-Dinosaur Killing Asteroid
Scientific results are consistent with the hypothesis that the dinosaur killing, K-T layer forming Chicxulub impactor came from well beyond Jupiter w…
1 year, 4 months ago
308E-327-Suddenly Bright
An example that a relatively large space rock can approach the Earth suddenly started with what appeared as a bright star moving across the images th…
1 year, 4 months ago
820-4015 Wilson-Harrington (1979 VA)
4015 Wilson-Harrington (1979 VA) was discovered as a comet by Wilson and Harrington in 1949, lost to astronomers for 30 years, and rediscovered in 19…
1 year, 4 months ago
307E-326-Asteroids 2016
2016 was another record year for asteroid hunters during which we discovered 1,894 new Earth approaching objects. My team, the NASA funded, Catalina …
1 year, 4 months ago
819-Binary Asteroids
Binary asteroids are important since they enable astronomers to study how objects interact in space and in some cases the data can even yield their s…
1 year, 5 months ago
306E-325-Marrakech
A location 9,000 feet above sea level in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco is ideal for an asteroid hunter since the weather is often clear and the skie…
1 year, 5 months ago
818-Historical Near Earth Comets
Approximately once every 45 million years a long period comet strikes the Earth with catastrophic results. Astronomers have identified and calculate…
1 year, 5 months ago
305E-324-Newborn Planets
The ALMA radio telescope located in the Atacama desert of northern Chile is able to see the faint millimeter wave length glow emitted by gas molecule…
1 year, 5 months ago
817-Interstellar Travelers In The Night
As astronomers learned to measure the distance to the stars and how the laws of Physics works with rockets, it seemed that travel between the stars w…
1 year, 5 months ago