Jul
30
Could Earth be hit like Jupiter?
Sometimes I totally feel like I'm wasting my time here. On July 20th, which was what, ten days ago? I wrote about the impact ...
Category: The Solar System, The Universe | 0 | Tagged with asteroid, asteroid watch, chicxulub, impact, jpl, jupiter, manson crater, near-earth-object, NEO, Russia, siberia, tunguska, yucatan
Mar
2
Asteroid 2009 DD45 barely missing the Earth
This is cool:
That is a time-lapse gif. Right in the center, you can see a very small, very dim dot, moving. That is asteroid ...
Category: Thoughts | 4 | Tagged with 2099 DD45, asteroid, near-earth-object, NEO, sky and telescope, space weapons ban
Apr
7
Office of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Object Preparedness
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who has possibly the longest name in Congress, and who represents California, which is a very long name as well, has ...
Category: Silly science | 1 | Tagged with asteroid, california, comet, legislation, near-earth-object, NEO, Office-of-Potentially-Hazardous-Near-Earth-Object-Prepa, rohrabacher
Nov
13
Sometimes it pays to just read the news
Don't know about you all, but I've been following the Rosetta fly-by with some interest for a week or so. The European Space Agency's ...
Category: The Solar System | 0 | Tagged with 2007-VN84, DASO, Denis-Denisenko, distant-artificial-satellites-observations, IAU, international-astronomical-agency, minor-planet-center, nasa, near-earth-object, NEO, NEOCP, Rosetta, The Solar System
Feb
19
The UN saving us from an asteroid strike?
Some stories just seem to develop a life of their own. Starting on December 26, 2004, I wrote a few articles on 2004 MN4, ...
Category: The Solar System | 6 | Tagged with 2004-MN4, Apophis, near-earth-object, The Solar System, united-nations
Aug
17
Pan-STARRS
In December 2004, I bitched and whined about the fact yet another fairly large asteroid zipped right by Earth and no one knew anything ...
Category: The Solar System | 0 | Tagged with international-astronomical-union, near-earth-object, The Solar System
May
19
Earth Strikes revisited
A former NASA astronaut will call on the U.S. Congress to evaluate an asteroid with a small chance of hitting Earth in 2036 and ...
Category: The Solar System | 1 | Tagged with 2004-MN4, near-earth-object, The Solar System
Sep
27
Toutatis Pt. 2
JPL, which I have written about here before, has an orbit simulator for Toutatis. Since this is a time sensitive issue, I have taken ...
Category: The Solar System | 0 | Tagged with near-earth-object, The Solar System, toutatis
Sep
27
Toutatis
The largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth is making a close celestial brush with the planet this week in an event that ...
Category: The Solar System | 0 | Tagged with near-earth-object, The Solar System, toutatis


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