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153E-165-One Two Punch
About 35 million years ago the Earth was impacted by two large asteroids creating the more than 50 mile diameter Popigai [pop a gay i] Crater in Russ…
4 years, 7 months ago
664-Extraterrestrial Whales(410)
Perhaps the reason that we have not detected alien civilizations on distant worlds is because they exist in oceans covered by miles of radiation abso…
4 years, 7 months ago
152E-164-Big Threat or Not
In February 2013 a space rock about 59 feet in diameter entered the Earth's atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia making a fire ball 30 times brighter …
4 years, 7 months ago
663-Alien Rock?(409)
A rock from another solar system is likely to have streaked by Earth before heading back into interstellar space.
4 years, 8 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
660-Double Comet(403)
What at first appeared to be an asteroid turned out to be a double comet.
4 years, 8 months ago