Tag: Asteroid

  • Asteroid Buzz

    Asteroid Buzz

    Two asteroids just buzzed by the earth! Just how close did those huge space rocks come to slamming into us? Closer than you may think! All it takes is one asteroid bigger than a car to make it through our atmosphere and hit the surface. Shockingly enough, this isn’t even a common occurrence. A bus,…

  • I Repeat, There Is No Asteroid Threatening Earth

    I Repeat, There Is No Asteroid Threatening Earth

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    Asteroids will kill Earth in September? OK, I like a good story and when we were kids, the ghosts that threatened fellow campers long ago were fodder for fun at the evening campsite. But when internet rumors of death and destruction run wild enough that NASA itself has to come out with an official statement…

  • Do These Look Like Asteroids?

    Do These Look Like Asteroids?

      Asteroids? Actually, the cover photo may look like a organized group of alien spaceships, but if you read just a bit of the below article, you will see that this is in fact a single asteroid in time lapse photography to show its track.  Hence the title of the NASA article. But on a…

  • Organics On Asteroid Bennu?

    Organics On Asteroid Bennu?

      Bennu – It all started with a theory A theory, that is, of how our entire solar system was created.  From the vast cloud of hydrogen, helium and dust, to the supernova that surely destabilized that cloud and lead to the creation of our Sun.  Small grains of dust flash heated into small molten…