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48E-60-A Close Visit With A Message
Eric Christensen was observing with the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey Telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he discovered a bright fast moving object in the night sky. During the next 25 hours it w…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
559-Farming Mars
On Earth plants provide us with medicines, food to eat, and oxygen to breathe. In the future, in addition to providing treats like strawberries it turns out that tending to the needs vegetables and w…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
47E-59-Spotting Travelers In The Night
Travelers In The Night from outer space are closer than you may imagine. If you were to go straight up more than 4 miles you would need supplementary oxygen to stay conscious. At 50 - 70 miles, the…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar energy to power equipment and keep warm, manufacture…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
46E-58-NASA Hunts For A Special Asteroid
Several years ago the NASA funded Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Program discovered an SUV sized asteroid which comes closer to Earth than about 1/6 of the distance to the Moon. It was2011 MD's…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
557-Back On The Sky
In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clouds, thunder, rain, hail, and lightning asteroid hun…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
45E-57-Hold A Traveler In The Night In Your Hand
Imagine holding a rock as old as our solar system that has traveled billions of miles through space to reach its present location. It might even be worth real money. We are talking about a meteorite…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
556-Earthly Moon Rock
In a most amazing turn of events, an international team of astronomers have published research in the Journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters which indicates that the a 3.9 Billion year old rock …
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
44E-56-A Whopper Or A Comet
2014 LJ21 is an asteroid, its brightness suggests that it is about 1 and a quarter miles in diameter. This estimate is based on the assumption that it reflects about 15% of the Sun light which strik…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
555-Dead Comet Dust
The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower which was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956. To spot the illusive Phoenicids for yourself plan to observe dur…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago