Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
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 abou…
6 years, 6 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 cloud…
6 years, 6 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 …
6 years, 6 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 whi…
6 years, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago