270E-283-Micro-Astronomy

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270E-283-Micro-Astronomy

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Feb 6, 2024

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The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Even the smallest speck has a story to tell.

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Feb 6, 2024

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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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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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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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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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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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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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77-Extremely Old World Could Harbor life: Astronomers have discovered a planet, twice as old as the Earth, at the right distance from its Sun to harbor life. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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79-Space Travelers-Lunar Meteorites: Rocks from the Moon can end up on the surface of the Earth and be worth more than diamonds or gold. 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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78-Up Close And Personal With A Comet: The Rosetta Spacecraft's arrival at a comet's nucleus has begun a process of discovery. 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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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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93-Name That Asteroid: A unique program allows students to discover and name asteroids. 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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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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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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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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145-Near Earth and Moon: This discovery demonstrates the fact that the asteroid hunting community has the ability to detect small objects before they make their closest approach to Earth. 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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128-Buzzed By An Asteroid: A tiny space rock comes unusually close to Earth. 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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283E-297-White Sky: Inappropriate night time outside lighting causes accidents and does not deter crime. However, it blinds you from the beauty of the Universe which surrounds you. by Travelers In The Night
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795-Spiral Comet: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes near the Sun once every 71 years. It was discovered in 1812 by Jean Louis Pons at Marseilles, France and then rediscovered by American Astronomer William Robert Brooks in 1883. Electronic cameras reveal this comet's... by Travelers In The Night
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282E-296-Tilted History: Seasons are created by the fact that the Earth's axis of rotation is currently tilted 23 1/2 degrees relative to our path around the Sun. The slight out of roundness of the Earth's orbit combined with a 41,000 year cycle in its 3 degree axis of... 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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793 Close Space Rock: Perhaps the most dangerous Amor asteroid is 2006 HZ51 .It was discovered by my team the Catalina Sky Survey. Fortunately the closest 2006 HZ51 will come to our home planet is June 11 of 2116 when it will pass us harmlessly 26 times the distance to... by Travelers In The Night
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280E-294-Dangerous Duo: Recently in the space of 28 hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammates Rose Matheny and Carson Fuls discovered two Potentially Hazardous Asteroids to add to the list of the more than 1700 which asteroid hunters have discovered. Fortunately, none of the... by Travelers In The Night
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792-Closest Approaching Comet: P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the world have the chance to discover a comet in images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or... by Travelers In The Night
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279E-293-From Luna: More than 240 Lunar meteorites have been found in the Dhofar region of Oman, on the LaPaz Icefield of Antartica, and other locations on the Earth's surface. These space traveling rocks were blasted from the Moon's surface by the impact of asteroids... by Travelers In The Night
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791-A Fireball and It’s Gifts: It all started when Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary reported the position and brightness of an unknown asteroid rapidly moving through the constellation of Lynx. Three hours later , the object, now called 2024 BX1... 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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790-Vivian's Debut: My new Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Vivian Carjaval was scheduled for three 13h long winter nights for her first solo observing run on our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona. As luck would have it she couldn’t observe the first night because of... by Travelers In The Night
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277E-291-Rose Rules: Anyone who thinks women can't do computers and science needs to meet my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny. On a recent 3 night observing run at the 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Rose took over the world of asteroid hunting when she posted... by Travelers In The Night
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789-Asteroid With A Tail: My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he came across a very curious object. It has an orbit like an ordinary main belt asteroid. However,... by Travelers In The Night
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276E-290-Screaming Aten: I knew from the short regularly space streaks on the four images I had just obtained with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch on Mount Lemmon, Arizona, I was looking at the path of an Earth approaching object. Turns out, this previously unknown object,... by Travelers In The Night
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788-!00 Years of Wilderness: In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natural night sky. Today, because of inappropriate night lighting, the vast majority of children will never... by Travelers In The Night
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275E-289-Strange Comet: C/2016 Q4 (Kowalski) is my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski's 14th comet discovery. It orbits the Sun once every 68 years on a cold path between Saturn and Neptune. by Travelers In The Night
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787-Far Out: In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night. by Travelers In The Night
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274E-288-Coming Out Of Monsoon: In the southwest, the life giving monsoon rains occur in July and August, divide the observing year into two halves, and give asteroid hunters a chance to do major equipment maintenance and upgrades. My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Richard Kowalski... by Travelers In The Night
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786-Comet 31: My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona. It orbits the Sun once every 6 years on a path between Mars and Jupiter. Comet P/2023/Y1 (Gibbs) is... by Travelers In The Night
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273E-286-Neighboring World: Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have discovered a rocky Earth like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our Sun. The planet named Proxima b is about 1.3 times more massive than Earth, orbits it's dim red star... by Travelers In The Night
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785-Secret Asteroid Mission: Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable nearby rocky M type asteroid is being planned in secret so that some other company doesn’t have the chance... by Travelers In The Night
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272E-285-Mars Impactors: In 2015 the Earth was struck by at least 43 meteoroids which created bright fireballs. Their arrival does not seem to be correlated with the position of the Earth in it's orbit about the Sun.Overall a given piece of ground on Mars is several times... by Travelers In The Night
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784-Josh's Two PHAs: So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search the sky to discover dangerous asteroids 50 years before impact so that humans can either deflect or... by Travelers In The Night
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271E-284-Dark Trails: A faint shooting star or meteor streaking across the sky is produced when a tiny bit of rock or dust enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up some 60 miles above us. NASA scientist Dr. Marc Fries and his collaborators have used Doppler Weather... by Travelers In The Night
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782-Probing The Cosmic Web: In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass with huge empty voids between them. How objects and structures in the early Universe became nearby... by Travelers In The Night
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269E-281-Starlight Walking: We don't know much about our Ethiopian ancestor Lucy who walked the Earth some 3 million years ago, however, it is likely that she made her way around at night but the light of the stars, air glow, and the Moon. In modern humans, the Rod receptors in... by Travelers In The Night
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781-Comet C.2023 V5 (Leonard): My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his 19th comet. Turns out Greg's new comet is a member of a family of comets... by Travelers In The Night
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