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541 Most Dangerous in 2018
541 Most Dangerous in 2018

Fortunately, on its current path, the most dangerous asteroid discovered in 2018 cannot come closer than 12.5 times the Moon's distance to humanity. …

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29E-41-Navigating The Night Sky
29E-41-Navigating The Night Sky

To the human eye the night sky is a source of mystery and wonder. Our ancestors knew it well. There is a connection to the cosmos that is hard to de…

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540 Loneliest Asteroid
540 Loneliest Asteroid

Being a near Earth asteroid is already a lonely existence since the paths of these small space rocks seldom bring them near any other material object…

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28E-40-Itokawa A Strange Space Peanut
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 …

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539-Close Approaches
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 dire…

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27E-39-Dash Cams And The Anatomy of An Airburst
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 …

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538-Asteroid Slam
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 numbe…

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26E-38-The Big Ones
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…

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537-Earth Glow
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…

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25E-37-Slow Movers At The Edge Of Our Solar System
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 standi…

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