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785-Secret Asteroid Mission
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable nearby rocky M type asteroid is being planned in secre…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
272E-285-Mars Impactors
In 2015 the Earth was struck by at least 43 meteoroids which created bright fireballs. Their arrival does not seem to be correlated with the position of the Earth in it's orbit about the Sun.Overall …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
784-Josh's Two PHAs
So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search the sky to discover dangerous asteroids 50 years befor…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
271E-284-Dark Trails
A faint shooting star or meteor streaking across the sky is produced when a tiny bit of rock or dust enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up some 60 miles above us. NASA scientist Dr. Marc Fries …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
783--Kacper's Centaur
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
270E-283-Micro-Astronomy
The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Even the smallest speck has a story to tell.
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass with huge empty voids between them. How objects and st…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
269E-281-Starlight Walking
We don't know much about our Ethiopian ancestor Lucy who walked the Earth some 3 million years ago, however, it is likely that she made her way around at night but the light of the stars, air glow, a…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
781-Comet C.2023 V5 (Leonard)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his 19th comet. Turns out Greg…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
268E-280-Ice Volcanos
Scientists have spotted icy plumes coming from below the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus but have yet to witness such events on Ceres. Even so there is significant evidence which points to the pos…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago