Archive for the 'Asteroids' Category

 Unlike short-lived solar eclipses or unpredictable auroras, meteor showers regularly offer skywatchers a dazzling show.Soon the curtain will rise on one of the best of these showers: the Perseids, so called because the meteors appear to originate in the constellation Perseus.
Slated to peak sometime during the night and early morning of August 11 to 12, […]

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Posted By: ashley | Aug 11th

 On the 100th anniversary of the devastating Tunguska event in Siberia, scientists and an Orange County congressman urge the government to take further defensive measures against near-Earth objects.
A group of scientists, joined by a member of Congress, used the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid event this week to draw attention to their belief that […]

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Posted By: ashley | Jul 7th

 An explosion rips through the Siberian wilderness in an artist’s conception.
A hundred years after a mysterious blast leveled some 770 square miles (2,000 square kilometers) of forest in Siberia, experts are saying that Earth is unprepared to face a similar blast caused by a meteor strike.
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According to Brian Handwerk

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Posted By: ashley | Jul 2nd

Did you miss firewords on new year’s eve?  Fear not, something better in store for you:
The annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks in the early morning of Jan. 4. The cold may be brutal, but the celestial display often is the year’s best, with more than 100 shooting stars visible per hour if viewing conditions are […]

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Posted By: froosh | Jan 3rd

File under “oh-oh”:
A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the red planet on January 30, scientists said Thursday.
“These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track … threatening asteroids,” said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object […]

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Posted By: froosh | Dec 21st