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606-Falling Stones
Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces be…
5 years, 6 months ago
94E-106-Your Reality Fueled Spacecraft
Computers are extremely efficient at processing numbers while humans excel at visualization. NASA and JPL have developed a computer environment, bas…
5 years, 6 months ago
605-Monsoon Nights
Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoon ti…
5 years, 6 months ago
93E-105-A New Chapter In The Human Exploration Of Space
The first unmanned test flight of the new NASA Orion Spacecraft went perfectly. It made two orbits of the Earth traveling as far as 3600 miles above …
5 years, 6 months ago
604-Comet Rankin
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice b…
5 years, 6 months ago
92E-104-Jupiter Trojan Confusion
Humans know of approximately half million main belt asteroids orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. We have also found approximately 11,000 Ear…
5 years, 6 months ago
603-Discovering Alien Life
Our star is only one among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way galaxy which itself is only one of a hundred billion or more galaxies in the known u…
5 years, 6 months ago
91E-103-Small Asteroids In Earth-like Orbits
Four days after it made its closest approach to Earth, I found a 10 foot diameter asteroid with the NASA funded University of Arizona 60 inch telesco…
5 years, 6 months ago
602-Solar Flares
Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Eart…
5 years, 7 months ago
90E-102-Little Asteroid On An Inside Track
2014 US7 is called an Aten [Ah tin] type of asteroid. The first of its type was discovered by Dr. Eleanor Key Francis "Glo" Helin in 1976. She was an…
5 years, 7 months ago