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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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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 obje…
6 years, 11 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 distanc…
6 years, 11 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…
6 years, 11 months ago
23E-35-An Asteroid With A Ring
Programs 31-60
Travelers in The Night
Programs
Contents
1 31-A Gentle Breakup Of An Asteroid
2 32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid with a Moon
3 33-A B…
7 years ago
534-Followups
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they mi…
7 years ago
22E-34-Number 5000
The 5000th Earth approaching asteroid discovered by the University of Arizona's NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey is approximately 3 times the size of…
7 years ago
533-100 Moons
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood.
7 years ago