779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?

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779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?

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Jan 12, 2024

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A research project whoes goal is to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it would not enter the Earth’s atmosphere as a single object perhaps saving humanity from an very expensive sonic boom.

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Jan 12, 2024

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Titles in the series (100)

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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80-Rocks From Space Tell A Tale: The small asteroid which entered the Earth's atmosphere and injured nearly 1500 people in February of 2013 had a history which can be traced back to the Moon forming event. 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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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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84-Space Travelers-Martian Meteorites: Rocks ejected from Mars by the impact of an asteroid or comet can and do find their way to Earth. by Travelers In The Night
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82-Space Travelers-Antartic Meteorites: In the past 30 years more than 20,000 meteorites have been found in Antarctica. Some of them originated on the Moon or Mars. by Travelers In The Night
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85-Obscuring The Cosmos: In 10 years there will only be a few places in the United States to see the Milky Way clearly or view a meteor striking across the night sky. 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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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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81-Shores Of The Cosmic Ocean: Through out history humans have viewed the night sky and used it as a source of information and sense of wonder. There is a new place to view the night sky in all of its beauty, the Cosmic Campground. by Travelers In The Night
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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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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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97-A Large Strange One: The discovery of a small cold world far from Earth. by Travelers In The Night
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83-Two Space Rocks Come Close: Two Earth approaching asteroids were discovered on the same night. by Travelers In The Night
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107-Mining Asteroids: Mining asteroids may seem farfetched, however, some on our planet are actively pursuing this goal. by Travelers In The Night
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86-A Close Flyby: A semi-trailer truck sized, rapidly rotating, asteroid comes almost to the distance of the communication satellites from Earth. 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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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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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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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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104-Jupiter Trojan Confusion: The Jupiter Trojan asteroids can masquerade as near Earth Objects. 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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87-MOM Reaches Mars: India becomes the first Asian nation to send a spacecraft to Mars. 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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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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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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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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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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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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112-A Banner Year For Asteroid Hunters: 2014 was a record year for the asteroid hunting community with more than 1,450 new objects being discovered. 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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794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow: Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow when she discovered, 2024 BR4, a two football field diameter Earth approaching asteroid.Vivian’s... by Travelers In The Night
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281E-295-Close Passes: During a recent 3 night observing run my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny discovered 4 asteroids which can come to less than one half the Moon's distance from us. Interestingly one of them passed about 25,000 miles over the South Pole 2 days... by Travelers In The Night
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779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?

779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?

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