NASA Warns Of Potential City Killer Meteors
NASA is warning the US government that our current only defence against a city killer meteorite is to ‘pray’. NASA has so far been unable to obtain funds for a new meteor detecting satellite...
Category: Asteroids & Comets
NASA Wants Meteor Warning System
NASA is requesting funds to track and divert meteorites that could be life threatening. However it appears that NASA is struggling ot get the appropriate funds.
Comet Pan-STARRS
Comet Pan-STARRS has survived its encounter with the sun and is now emerging from twilight in the sunset skies of the northern hemisphere. A NASA spacecraft monitoring the comet has beamed back pictures of...
What Exploded Over Russia? – NASA
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is NASA’s view of what happened recently over Russia, which was the biggest explosion over Russia since the 1908 Tunguska explosion. It has...
Protecting Earth From Asteroids
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson explains what can be done to protect Earth from an impact with a giant asteroid. All plans are on paper...
Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby – NASA And Bill Nye
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – There have been some suggestions that the meteorite that recently exploded over Russia was linked to the near flyby asteroid DA14. Not so say...
Tunguska Explosion – 1908
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Following the recent meteorite explosion over Russia we present another explosion over Russia in 1908, which could have been an asteroid exploding but is...
Meteor Explodes Over Russia – 15th February 2013
Giant Meteor Explodes Over Russia. Over 1000 injured.
OSIRIS-REx Targets Near Earth Objects
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to asteroid 1999 RQ36 to study the evolution of its orbit and to retrieve a sample for return...
Record Setting Asteroid Flyby Due February 15th
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth closer than many man-made satellites. There is...
Chinese Probe’s Close Encounter With An Asteroid
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A Chinese deep space probe had a very close encounter with asteroid Toutatis in December 2012. The achievement signals China’s entry into yet another...
New Space Firm Plans To Mine Asteroids
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A new company, Deep Space Industries, has announced plans for mining asteroids. It intends to send a fleet of small prospecting spacecraft into the...
ISON – Comet Of The Century
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Comet ISON is already being called the comet of the century. It is not on a collision course but it is predicted to be...
Why The World Didn’t End Yesterday
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A video made by Nasa over a week ago explaining why the World did not end yesterday! The Maya calendar has never foretold the...
Sungrazing Comets
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting information on Sungrazing comets, the Kreutz path, and why before 1979, there were less than a dozen known Sungrazing comets and as of...
Comets Help Explore the Sun’s Atmosphere
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Comet Lovejoy swept right through the sun’s corona with its long tail streaming behind it in December 2011. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images...
The Geminid Meteor Shower
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting information on the the Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th when Earth runs through a stream of debris from a...
More About Jupiter And Its Moons
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – More on Jupiter and its Moons including how Jupiter was originally used to determine the speed of light and the collision of the comet,...
