ALERT WATCH VIDEO OF LARGE ASTEROID TRACKED by NASA’s International Space Station
Shocking “Asteroid Report” Incoming Meteors And More
METEOR SMASHES INTO AUSTRALIA: People left terrified as space rock causes houses to SHAKE… 99 more words
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Large Meteor crash off Queensland coast, Australia
Central Queensland spotted the meteor which resulted in a huge flash of light and the loud boom in the night sky.
Experts are divided over if it’s a meteor, meteorite, an asteroid, or a UFO that lit up Gladstone’s sky… 369 more words
September 27 - 134 Sophrosyne / DAWN
Asteroid 134 Sophrosyne was discovered on September 27th 1873 by Robert Luther. Its a dark, C-type, main belt asteroid, with an estimated diameter, derived from… 347 more words
OSIRIS-REx mission explained
Anthony Lydgate, editor of Elements, newyorker.com’s science-and-tech blog provides details of the September 8 launch and goals of the OSIRIS-REx mission, to collect and return about 60 g of material from the asteroid Bennu. 27 more words
Asteroid 2016 SJ just gave Earth a 'Close Shave' yet another one is going to pass by Earth
Bus-sized Asteroid 2016 SJ passed just 0.4 lunar distance away (92,575 miles or 148,985 km) one third of the distance between Earth and the Moon on September 22, 2016. 119 more words
Earths water, and comet tails
Theres a lot of disagreement about how earth got its water, especially as the planets closer and further from the sun dont seem to have much water. 308 more words
September 25 - Asteroid 203 Pompeja
Asteroid 203 Pompeja was discovered on September 25th 1879 by our old workaholic friend Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters. There isn’t much to say about it except it’s about 116 km across, and completes one orbit of the Sun every four and a half Earth years. 89 more words
