393E-431-Tough Space Rocks
Most small asteroids are likely to be rubble piles of small rocks and dust loosely held together by their weak force of gravity while others may be made of ices of various substances. A few are solid ...
16 Kesä 2min
903-Eclipse of the Moon Observing
My team the Catalina Sky Survey has pioneered searching for asteroids coming from the direction of the dark side of the moon.
12 Kesä 2min
392E-430-Deportee
The beautiful star cluster the Pleiades in the constellation of Tauris is about 100 million years old making it one of the youngest objects that you can see in the natural night sky. Data obtained by ...
9 Kesä 2min
902-Lighting Up The Night
A start up company Reflect Orbital is proposing to launch 50,000 satellite mirrors by 2035 to illuminate solar panels on Earth all night long. This would be devastating for human sleep cycles, birds, ...
5 Kesä 2min
391E-428-Phaethon
The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon (FAY-eh-thon) does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet. Further it appears to be like the Peanuts character Pigpen in t...
2 Kesä 2min
901-Rubin and Incoming Asteroids
However, according to a recent research project, the Rubin Observatory will discover but not give an adequate warning time for objects destined to hit the Earth. To provide time to take action to defl...
29 Touko 2min
390E-427-Meteor Whispers
Often observers report hearing a percussive sound, like a sonic boom from an aircraft, minutes after viewing a bright meteor fireball. In addition, in a fewer number of instances, there are many relia...
26 Touko 2min
900-Earth Life from Mars
Some of the 635,000 impact craters found on Mars are the result of such violent impacts that pieces of Mars are ejected, travel around the solar system, and a few become one of the several hundred Mar...
22 Touko 2min
