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Comet May Hit Mars in 2014
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
It may kick up enough red dust to set back planned missions to Mars by several years.
On the Space.com website, Mike Wall reports that a newfound comet will give Mars a close shave next year, and there's a...
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On the Space.com website, Mike Wall reports that a newfound comet will give Mars a close shave next year, and there's a...
Asteroid on the Way? Pray
Friday, March 29, 2013
That's the (rather unscientific) advice to Congress from NASA chief Charles Bolden, who basically says that if a large asteroid heads towards a big US city--as it recently did in Russia--there's not much else we can do. He told them, "From the information we have, we don't know of an asteroid that will threaten the population of the United...
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Comet Aiming for Mars
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Will life on Mars go the way of the dinosaurs before we have a chance to discover it? Incoming Comet C213/A1, discovered on January 1st, is expected by some astronomers to pass within 28,000 miles of Marsin 2014. But cometary trajectories change, and an impact is not impossible, although NASA estimates that the object will pass Mars at a distance...
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When a Comet Exploded in the Air
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Ever since the publication of the groundbreaking book the Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes in 2006, a controversy has raged about whether or not the explosion of a comet over southern Canada almost 13,000 years ago might have led to the...
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BOOM!
Monday, February 20, 2012
The are a lot of strange sounds around lately (NOTE: subscribers can still listen to these special...
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Water Means Life--So Harness a Comet
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
When our satellites search for other planets that might harbor life, they always search for water. But now, for the first time, astronomers have detected around a burgeoning solar system a sprawling cloud of water vapor that's cold enough to form comets, which could eventually deliver oceans to dry planets. And with oceans, life could spring up--...
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Did Comet Cause Massive Solar Explosion on Oct. 1?
Monday, October 3, 2011
A few hours after a comet discovered by amateur astronomers on September 30 impacted the sun, a massive coronal mass ejection took place directly opposite theobject's impact point. Previously, solar...
Are Dangerous Space Rocks Coming Our Way?
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Comets make people crazy, and with the 2012 end-of-the-world scenario in people's minds (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), the hype surrounding a minor cometary body called Comet Elenin is approaching a...
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BOOM!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
When time slip expert Starfire Tor joined Whitley on Coast to Coast AM on January 9, one of her predictions for 2011 was more meteor strikes. Her prediction has come true already: In Oklahoma, people recently star a "big ball of fire" streaking across the sky. It glowed slightly green, probably...
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A Bright Visitor to the Night Sky
Monday, January 15, 2007
A comet even brighter than Hale-Bopp was in 1995 can now be seen in the night sky. Comet McNaught became visible on January 12 and can be seen through Monday, January 15.
Chinaview.cn reports that McNaught is the brightest comet in 30 years. The comet, which has the official name of C/2006 P1, was discovered by Australian astronomer...
Comet Continues to Break Up--UPDATE
Thursday, April 27, 2006
On Monday, Comet 73P/Schwassmann Wachmann 3 broke in two, and now it is breaking up into smaller pieces as it headstoward the sun. There have been recent internet predictionsthat a large fragment of this comet would strike the earthon May 25, but in a new UPDATE, NASA says this will NOThappen. However, it is possible that meteor showers...
New Warning About Invisible Comets
Friday, November 5, 2004
Scientists now warn that with even the most sophisticatedastronomical scanning technology, dangerous meteorites arebeing missed and could possibly hit the earth with no warning. Professor Wickramasinghe of the Cardiff University?s centerfor Astrobiology claims that we can no longer assume that wehave decades or even years of warning for certain...
Keep Your Eye on the Sky
Thursday, February 28, 2002
The Moon will became full on February 27th and this full Moon is special because it?s the biggest and brightest of the year. ?Not all full Moons are alike,? says astronomy professor George Lebo. ?Sometimes pollution or volcanic ash shades them with interesting colors. Sometimes haloes form around them -- a result of ice crystals in the air....
Meteor Storm to Threaten Satellites
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
A severe meteor storm expected to peak in November will bombard the world?s satellites with an unusually dense amount of space dust, creating the greatest threat of a meteor impact since 1966, according to NASA scientists.
The Leonid meteor shower occurs annually but this year it is expected to be a storm unlike anything seen in recent...
Sex From Space
Thursday, July 19, 2001
Comets and asteroids have been blamed for bringing life to Earth in the form of bacteria and wiping out the dinosaurs. Now scientists say they may also be responsible for sex.
The origin of sex remains one of biology?s greatest mysteries. Scientists can?t say exactly why we do it. Before sex, life seemed to manage fine with asexual...
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