ASTEROID HITS EARTH - 2014 AA Was Discovered Hours Before Impact
ASTEROID HITS EARTH - 2014 AA Was Discovered Hours Before Impact
Posted to YouTube by nemesis maturity 2,955 views
2014 The Year of CERTAIN Uncertainty; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!
Showing posts with label Richard Kowalski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Kowalski. Show all posts
17 November 2010
Meteorite Girls help discover VERY close approaching NEO, Asteroid 2010WA 16NOV2010 17NOV2010
Meteorite Girls help discover VERY close approaching NEO, Asteroid 2010WA
closest at 10:45pm Eastern Standard Time, or 7:45pm Pacific, tonight 16NOV2010by Richard Kowalski, Catalina Sky SurveyLast night Lisa Marie Morrison and Leigh Anne DelRay Cromwell visited the Catalina Sky Survey's 60" telescope on Mt. Lemmon.
While they were here they got to see how we observe and survey for NEOs. I commented that while we can find NEOs at any time of the night, they tend to start showing up after midnight, so I wasn't sure if they'd get to see anything other than Main Belt Asteroids.
Within minutes of me saying that a new NEO popped up on the screen. It turns out to be a tiny rock, only about 15 feet in diameter, but it makes a special showing today.
Around 3:45 Universal (10:45pm Eastern Standard Time, or 7:45pm Pacific, tonight 16NOV2010) time this Near Earth Asteroid, 2010 WA, will make an extraordinary close approach to the Earth, passing a mere 20,000 miles above the surface. That's closer than Geosynchronous orbiting satellites!
You will need a large telescope to see it visually or one equipped with a CCD camera. However at closest approach it will be traveling more than one degree per minute across the sky so you'll need to be able to find it and then track it. A bit of a daunting problem, but it should be easier to spot right now as it is making its approach.
closest at 10:45pm Eastern Standard Time, or 7:45pm Pacific, tonight 16NOV2010
by Richard Kowalski, Catalina Sky Survey
Last night Lisa Marie Morrison and Leigh Anne DelRay Cromwell visited the Catalina Sky Survey's 60" telescope on Mt. Lemmon. While they were here they got to see how we observe and survey for NEOs. I commented that while we can find NEOs at any time of the night, they tend to start showing up after midnight, so I wasn't sure if they'd get to see anything other than Main Belt Asteroids.
Within minutes of me saying that a new NEO popped up on the screen. It turns out to be a tiny rock, only about 15 feet in diameter, but it makes a special showing today.
Around 3:45 Universal (10:45pm Eastern Standard Time, or 7:45pm Pacific, tonight 16NOV2010) time this Near Earth Asteroid, 2010 WA, will make an extraordinary close approach to the Earth, passing a mere 20,000 miles above the surface. That's closer than Geosynchronous orbiting satellites!
You will need a large telescope to see it visually or one equipped with a CCD camera. However at closest approach it will be traveling more than one degree per minute across the sky so you'll need to be able to find it and then track it. A bit of a daunting problem, but it should be easier to spot right now as it is making its approach.
16 March 2010
Tucson Arizona Meteor 14MAR2010
Sunday, March 14 a bright fireball seen over Tucson at ~10:14 pm (5:14 UT). First reported by astronomer Richard Kowalski of Tucson, Az. Two videos of the fireball, a still captured by the MMT All-Sky camera can be seen at:
The Transient Sky – Comets, Asteroids, Meteor by Carl Hergenrother
The Transient Sky – Comets, Asteroids, Meteor by Carl Hergenrother
03 December 2009
Almahata Sitta metorite- "Naked Science: Countdown to Impact" 3DEC09
Richard Kowalski holding a specimen of the Almahata Sitta meteorite. Photo courtesy of http://fullmoonphotography.net
Naked Science: Countdown to Impact
The National Geographic Channel will air "Naked Science: Countdown to Impact" on Thursday December 3 at 10 pm Eastern Time. The program will include footage about the discovery of an Earth-bound asteroid impactor, 2008 TC3, by astronomer Richard Kowalski and the finding of the resulting Almahata Sitta meteorite fall in Sudan.
National Geographic Channel:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/naked-science/4652/Overview
Rocks from Space Picture of the Day- Photo story by Sara Cole:
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/December_3_2009.html
Fullmoon Photography Site:
http://fullmoonphotography.net
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)