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238E-250-Born Wild
Jupiter and Saturn helped to produce where we live.
Our home planet was formed after a period of chaos in the solar system
Today our solar system is a pretty calm place. However, meteorites we find on …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
749-Earth Glow(537)
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona of gas surrounding it. Scientists are just beginning…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
748-Ultima Thule(536)
Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped object which orbits the Sun once every 298 years. The …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
237E-249-Tough Tourist
Rocky metallic asteroid can stand the heat.
A block and a half sized asteroid makes visits to Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter.
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
747-Alone or Not(535)
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breathe and liquid water on its surface. The search is on…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
236E-248-Incoming
What happens when an asteroid is heading in our direction.
A close approaching asteroid was observed as it passed between the Earth and our Moon.
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
746-Followups(534)
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they might return to near Earth space or perhaps even str…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
235E-247-Potential Mining Target
My Catalina Sky Survey teammates have discovered an asteroid which could be a potential mining target. Mining asteroids may be a much cheaper way to get the raw materials that space colonists need wh…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
745-100 Moons(533)
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
234E-246-Anatomy Of An Extinction Crater
By drilling into a crater rim, researchers hope to discover how the Earth and it's life forms recovered from an asteroid impact.
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago