Answers for Allensbank
After a recent talk at Allensbank Primary School, I received questions for many of the children. Here are answer to three of them…
Tag Archives: Asteroids
Asteroid 16 Psyche
The trick the finding asteroids is to look in the same place more than once. I did this both with my own telescope and using SLOOH, the online telescope network. This was my first asteroid find.
Astronomy du Jour
I am once again enjoying a timeout in Provence, where I have dark, clear skies most nights and a supply of good wine and too much cheese
Networking Meteors
I don’t normally talk about the daily APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) images from NASA becasue they are so popular and well annotated. Today’s has really caught my eye though.
Between 2007 and 2009, a group of amateur meteor enthusiasts in Japan got together to create a national network of over 100 connected video cameras. [...]
Close Encounters
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the BBC in Birmingham to help edit The Sky at Night as an astronomy researcher. The episode was about near-Earth objects, specifically 2008TC3, which crash landed in the Sudan last year, after being tracked from space. You can currently catch the episode on the BBC iPlayer.
The BBC [...]
Making Craters with Down2Earth
Here is a great astronomy website for some fun this weekend called Down2Earth. You input some parameters and then simulate an asteroid impact on Earth. You can select the asteroid’s size, speed, density and target material. Try it out! (Screenshots inside).
Asteroid 2007 TU24
Discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on October 11 last year, this 150-600m asteroid will closely approach the Earth in the next few days. It will pass within 1.4 lunar distances (roughly 335,000 miles) on January 29th at about 8a.m. GMT. It will almost reach magnitude 10 between the 29th and 30th and will then [...]
Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of the Day (APOD)
I love NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, known to its friends as APOD. So to honour that Great website, which has been running for more than a decade, I here present my own personal top ten list of APODs. They may not be quite the same as anyone else Top Ten but they represent [...]
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