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685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enough material was left in Jupiter's wake to form Venus…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
173E-185-So Many Possibilities
The number of possible places in a galaxy for life as we know it to develop depends on the number of stars which have planets, the presence of necessary elements such as iron, oxygen, nitrogen, and c…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
684-Our View(462)
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving and thought provoking as looking into deep space with …
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
172E-183-No Worries
A number of blogs and postings on the web have been spreading the false rumor that there is an asteroid which is about to strike the Earth producing catastrophic damage. There are also recurrent fals…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
683-TESS(460)
To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the entire sky to detect the tiny dips in light caused …
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
171E-184-Most Dangerous
Recently the 3.5 meter Space Surveillance Telescope located at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico found an an asteroid which has been named 2015 PU228. It is currently the asteroid which is…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
682-Falling Space Rocks(459)
n the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across the sky to the American Meteor Society. To find fres…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
170E-182-Earth Life On Mars
If Earth had a mountain about four times higher than Mt. Everest this hypothetical mountain's summit would have the thin atmosphere, UV radiation from the Sun, and the temperature extremes approachin…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
681-17,000 to Go(455)
So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more to be found. For this reason, NASA has designed and …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
169E-181-Beyond Moon
The relentless pull of the Earth's gravity on the Moon causes it to always point the same side towards us. The Moon's slight wobble has allowed us to catch glimpses of a small sliver of the Moon's fa…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago