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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…
4 years, 1 month 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 th…
4 years, 2 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 fro…
4 years, 2 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…
4 years, 2 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…
4 years, 2 months ago
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the other …
4 years, 2 months ago
168E-180-An Eternal One
Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski found a faint moving point of light in the night sky. After his discovery observations were posted on …
4 years, 2 months ago
679-Hammer(453)
When Asteroid Hunters find a relatively large asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth, the challenge is to change its path to make it miss o…
4 years, 2 months ago
167E-179-Planets,Billiards,&Alchemy
"I do not know how I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, in n…
4 years, 2 months ago
678-Greg's Comet(425)
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest of…
4 years, 3 months ago