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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 whi…
6 years, 5 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 …
6 years, 5 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 il…
6 years, 5 months ago
43E-55-RADAR Telescopes Pair Up To ImageNEA
RADAR observations of asteroids and comets are an important way to measure an objects size, shape, and rate of spin. The precise distance measuremen…
6 years, 5 months ago
554-Martian Rolling Stones
Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loosely b…
6 years, 6 months ago
42E-54-Tour A Neighbor World
Our Moon is the only other world whose surface can be easily viewed by humans. The 59% of its surface visible from Earth is about 53 times the area …
6 years, 6 months ago
553-Exploring The Far Side
The Chinese, Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon where it is impossible to have direct radio communications with the Earth. Its…
6 years, 6 months ago
41E-53-Where Is Juno
The planet Jupiter is less important to us than the Earth, Sun, and Moon. However, it hold clues about the formation of our solar system and does sen…
6 years, 6 months ago
552-Night Sky Surprise
On October 7, 2018 the moonless night sky became 25% brighter and reached the point where it is at a small light polluted city, all without human in…
6 years, 6 months ago
40E-52-Another Large Bright Suddenly Appearing Asteroid
An unknown, quarter of a mile diameter asteroid, reached its furthest distance from the Sun on June 17, 2012. It brightened 10,000 times as it approa…
6 years, 6 months ago