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Asteroid Update
What happened? On Friday morning, a meteorite about the size of a house exploded over a remote part of Russia. This was the largest “impact” since the 1908 explosion over Tunguska in Siberia. Then, on...
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March 26 – Blue Moon
Today’s Factismal: The first sighting of a moon orbiting an asteroid was made in 1994. If you have ever gone on a long journey, you know that it is often a good idea to stop every once in awhile to...
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Bonus Factismal: Asteroid Fly-by
If you are a fan of asteroids or just like to think about what might have killed the dinosaurs (and who doesn’t?), then tomorrow is your day and tonight is your night. Right now, there is an asteroid...
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June 30 – Ka-Boom!
Today’s factismal: It is World Meteor Day. Go out tonight and look for meteors! The world of meteors is a confusing one to the uninitiated. We speak of meteors and meteorites and falls and finds and...
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March 3 – Moon Madness
Today’s factismal: 3753 Cruithne does not orbit the Earth. Of late, there have been a lot of blog posts (even, sadly, on supposedly “science oriented” websites) claiming that Earth has a “second moon”...
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October 16 – The Gold Bug
Today’s factismal: There is more gold on one asteroid (433 Eros) than has ever been mined on Earth. Ask any third grader what killed the dinosaurs and odds are she’ll tell you that an asteroid did it....
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March 29 – Where the Home Fire Burns
Today’s factismal: Heinrich Olbers discovered Vesta , the eleventh planet in the Solar System, 209 years ago today. If there is one thing that is sure to set planetologists and astronomers fighting, it...
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January 16 – Blowin’ In The (Cosmic) Wind
Today’s Factismal: The Stardust mission returned samples from a comet ten years ago today but the science continues! There are a lot of things we don’t know in science. But there are a lot of things...
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