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151E-163-Space Junk
There are more than 20,000 pieces of space junk larger than 4 inches in diameter and millions of tiny ones in orbit around the Earth. At orbital spe…
4 years, 6 months ago
662-Earth's Pet Rock(408)
On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Eart…
4 years, 6 months ago
150E-162-Icarus Pays A Visit
For 43 years after its discovery in 1949, the Earth approaching asteroid Icarus, was known as the object which passes closest to our Sun. It is named…
4 years, 6 months ago
661-Roving Venus(400)
To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the co…
4 years, 6 months ago
149E-161-Half A World Away
Using the long arm of the internet, astronomers in Russia are observing with a telescope located near Mayhill, New Mexico to discover solar system ob…
4 years, 7 months ago
660-Double Comet(403)
What at first appeared to be an asteroid turned out to be a double comet.
4 years, 7 months ago
148E-160-Alma Spots Juno
Juno was found by German astronomer Karl L. Harding in 1804 who noticed that to the human eye it appeared to be a star like moving point of light in …
4 years, 7 months ago
659-Martian Debris(382)
Martian Trojan asteroids have stable orbits around the Sun, leading and trailing the red planet by 60 degrees, where the Sun's and Mars's gravity are…
4 years, 7 months ago
147E-159-Good News
Recently my NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered an approaching asteroid about the same size as the one whose high altitud…
4 years, 7 months ago
658-Fireball II(418)
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space of…
4 years, 7 months ago