177-Flying Peanut

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177-Flying Peanut

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Sep 15, 2015

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NASA sent a RADAR beam across the country by reflecting it from a passing asteroid. Scientists used these data to make a movie of this celestial visitor as it spins slowly through space.

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Sep 15, 2015

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Space, Asteroid Hunting, and Astronomy, an insider view.The music is "Eternity" by John Lyell.Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact

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88-Space Rocks: Space rocks have been observed hurtling between planets, flying through our atmosphere, and lying on the surface of planet Earth. by Travelers In The Night
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101-Navigating The Earth Moon Dance: We are discovering many small asteroids which pass closer to us than the Moon. Very rarely one of them crashes into the Earth or Moon. by Travelers In The Night
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108-How Close Will It Come To Us: When will you be told about a potential asteroid impact? by Travelers In The Night
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89-Witnessing An Asteroid Impact: What would it be like to witness an asteroid impact similar to what happened at Tunguska, Russia in 1908. by Travelers In The Night
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134-Recycling Spacecraft: A number of malfunctioning spacecraft have been reprogrammed so that they can produce useful results. by Travelers In The Night
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90-Shine Little Asteroid Shine: A small asteroid becomes bright enough to be seen with a small telescope and an electronic camera. by Travelers In The Night
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99-Peppered By Space Rocks: It appears that the human population is at more at risk from smaller rather than larger Earth impacting asteroids. by Travelers In The Night
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127-Tied For Third: Comets are one of nature's most spectacular displays. They are in most cases named for their discoverer. by Travelers In The Night
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92-An Earth Approaching Comet: A recently discovered Earth Approaching comet reminds us that there are objects like this out there and how they could influence human activity. by Travelers In The Night
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103-Small Asteroids In Earth-like Orbits: Small asteroids come close enough at the right speeds for us to visit them. by Travelers In The Night
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114-Roses First Asteroid: The newest member of the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey team, Rose Matheny, discovers her first Earth approaching asteroid. by Travelers In The Night
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110-Asteroids Accessible By Astronauts: Asteroid hunters have discovered nearly 100 small objects which are accessible by astronauts. by Travelers In The Night
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94-You Are Close To Outer Space: Outer space is not far from you, it just takes a lot of energy to get there. by Travelers In The Night
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96-Target Asteroids: Students have the opportunity to do original scientific research and to discover and name asteroids. by Travelers In The Night
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126-Ready Yourself For Alien Life: How will humans react to the inevitable discovery of life outside of our planet? by Travelers In The Night
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123-A New Discovery Not: A seemingly unknown potentially hazardous asteroid is found to be an asteroid discovered 12 years ago. by Travelers In The Night
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93-Name That Asteroid: A unique program allows students to discover and name asteroids. by Travelers In The Night
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116-Three Is A Record: In less than three and a half hours 3 Potentially Hazardous asteroids were discovered. by Travelers In The Night
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98-Objects Visiting Our Neighborhood: Every month we discover small asteroids which come closer than the Moon. by Travelers In The Night
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97-A Large Strange One: The discovery of a small cold world far from Earth. by Travelers In The Night
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91-Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: A small meteoroid traveling faster than a rifle bullet has more kinetic energy than a locomotive. by Travelers In The Night
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124-Great Shefford Observatory: Observations from telescopes around the world are required to determine the path of Earth approaching objects. by Travelers In The Night
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95-Phantom Meteor Shower: Observations of what appeared to be different objects, over the time span from 1819 to the present, are likely to be manifestations of the same traveler in the night. by Travelers In The Night
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100-Where Extension Cords Can't Reach: The use of Radioisotope Power Systems has brought us a wealth of knowledge about our solar system. by Travelers In The Night
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119-Signs of Life On Mars: The mystery of life continues to pull us towards Mars. by Travelers In The Night
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102-Little Asteroid On An Inside Track: A small asteroid will make close approaches to Earth, our Moon, and Venus. by Travelers In The Night
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105-New Human Exploration Of Space: The successful unmanned test of the Orion Spacecraft is the beginning of a new chapter in the human exploration of space. by Travelers In The Night
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118-A Skyscraper Sized Asteroid to Visit: A skyscraper sized Potentially Hazardous Asteroid is discovered when it was 50 million miles from us. by Travelers In The Night
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111-Green Meteors: Green Meteors which have long been attributed to alien spacecraft or spy devices are in reality beautiful natural events. by Travelers In The Night
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106-Your Reality Fueled Spacecraft: NASA/JPL has developed a new computer program, based on software game architecture, which allows you to tour space using real NASA data. by Travelers In The Night
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801-Jacqui's PHA: My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when she spotted and then reported a bright moving point of light in the night sky to the Minor Planet... by Travelers In The Night
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286E-301-Visitors From Afar: A pair of comets visiting our neighborhood are discovered in a matter of 4 days. One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is having a comet named for you. To do this you must be the first to discover it as a moving point of light in the night sky... by Travelers In The Night
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798-Destination Enceladus: Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus potentially could be the home of fellow living creatures. by Travelers In The Night
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285E-299-Sporadic Geysers: Using a small telescope or a set of binoculars you can see Europa for yourself as a small moving point of light circling the giant planet Jupiter. More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered this seemingly small dead world the Hubble Space... by Travelers In The Night
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284E-298-Rosetta: The Rosetta Spacecraft left planet Earth in 2004. During its twelve year lifetime this robotic emissary traveled 5 billion miles on 6 trips around the Sun, flew by Earth three times, visited Mars, and cruised by two asteroids. Rosetta needed to take... by Travelers In The Night
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796-COMET C.2024 E1 (Wierzchos)-Preview: On the 3rd of March 2024 while asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon , Arizona my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos discovered a comet moving through the constellation of Draco.Since we don’t know Kacper’s comet’s... by Travelers In The Night
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278E-292-Disintegrating Comet: Comets are made up of organic materials and ices of various substance which are left over from the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago. When the gravity of a nearby star or other object changes one of these dirty snowball's orbit, its... by Travelers In The Night
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