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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. …
6 years, 9 months ago
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…
6 years, 9 months ago
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…
6 years, 9 months ago
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 …
6 years, 9 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 dire…
6 years, 9 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 …
6 years, 9 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 numbe…
6 years, 9 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…
6 years, 9 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…
6 years, 9 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 standi…
6 years, 10 months ago