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28E-40-Itokawa A Strange Space Peanut
The asteroid Itokawa [e toe kawa] is as odd as a barbell with a 29 lb weight on one end and and 18 lb weight on the other. It was discovered in 1998 as a moving point of light in the night sky by th…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
539-Close Approaches
During a recent 30 day period, 11 small space rocks passed closer to us than the Moon. If one of them were to enter our atmosphere and you were directly under such an impact you would hear a loud no…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
27E-39-Dash Cams And The Anatomy of An Airburst
Aleksei Dozorov, a motorist in Russia stated “You can get into your car without your pants on, but never get into a car without a dash cam,” . This attitude is caused by poor highway law enforcement…
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
538-Asteroid Slam
Humans are slamming projectiles into space rocks. These experiments will give us the know how to deal with a dangerous space rock which has our number on it.
Published on 6 years, 6 months ago
26E-38-The Big Ones
One million human lifetimes ago an asteroid impact was at least partially responsible for eliminating the dinosaurs. This event has allowed our race to evolve to its present stateThose of us in the …
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
537-Earth Glow
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona of gas surrounding it. Scientists are just beginnin…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
25E-37-Slow Movers At The Edge Of Our Solar System
Imagine a world that is so far from our Sun that it receives less than 1/5000 of the heat and light that makes our life possible. If your were standing on it, you could cover the Sun with the tip of…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
536-Ultima Thule
Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped object which orbits the Sun once every 298 years. The …
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
24E-36-Earth and Moon as Evening Stars
A human with normal vision standing on Mars would see the Earth and our Moon as a double evening star. An observer on Mars would also see the distance between the Earth and Moon change as they revolv…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
535-Alone Or Not
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breathe and liquid water on its surface. The search is on…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago