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97E-109-Eighteen Sleeps Later
The NASA, New Horizons spacecraft woke up from its 18th sleeping period in the last 9 years. Its long space naps have lasted an average 104 days eac…
6 years ago
608-Triple Comet
Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and Hel…
6 years, 1 month ago
96E-108-How Close Will It Come To Us
The goal of the NASA Near Earth Object Program is to provide an early warning should an asteroid be found to be on a path bringing it close to planet…
6 years, 1 month ago
607-Good Night
Nearly every day during the monsoon rainy season in the American southwest, afternoon thunderstorms require putting mountain top telescopes and camer…
6 years, 1 month ago
95E-107-Mining Asteroids
Science fiction writers have long imagined human space colonies which use the resources they find.It will take major, risky investments over many yea…
6 years, 1 month ago
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…
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 1 month 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 …
6 years, 1 month 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…
6 years, 2 months ago