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Although small space rocks pose no threat to humans, they are an interesting part of our environment, offer a chance for asteroid hunters to develo...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: The Phoenix CityCam caught the flash of light around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017, Credit: City of Phoenix
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Falling from Space, Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of ti...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
When Egypt comes to mind, most think about the desert. Thanks to German and Egyptian scientists the country could soon be covered in trees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
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Protecting your skin from the sun is a must. So is protecting coral reefs from toxic sunscreen.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Move over Tesla, a collaborator of Swiss Companies has created a prototype dump truck that might even be able to sell electricity back to the grid!

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A British company finds a way to turn food waste into renewable energy and bio-fertilizer using anaerobic digestion.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Bees are good for much more than stinging. With bee populations rapidly declining, Cedar Rapids is finding a way to give them a second shot.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Eros, Credit: NASA
In 2020, my team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 14 extremely tough asteroids which regularly travel closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury. ...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit:  Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Noctilucent Clouds exist at more than 50 miles above the Earth's surface or about 4 times higher than the tops of the most intense tropical thunder...

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  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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From 1663 to 2011, seven comets had close encounters with Jupiter and two had close encounters with Saturn. In May of 1936, Comet P/2020 F1 Leonar...

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  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Images of the quiet Sun during a solar minimum make it look like a relatively static peaceful place. Occasionally during solar minimum, at the Cosm...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11