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558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar en…
7 years ago
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…
7 years 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…
7 years 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 …
7 years 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…
7 years 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 …
7 years 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…
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month 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 …
7 years, 1 month ago