A new animation created by Alvaro Montoya provides a terrifying look at some notable asteroids in our solar system. Hang on to your hats – Apophis will make a close call with Earth on Friday the 13th 2029 skimming our atmosphere just 18,000 miles up. Keep in mind that telecom satellites orbit 22,0000 miles up. …
Below are the notes I wrote and submitted to Coast to Coast AM and George Noory for my radio interview, February 12th, 2019. I’m not sure if George read all this but writing the notes and reviewing them helped me prepare for the show. I had most of the pages spread out in front of …
My fan club from Budapest, Hungary checked in today! These guys, Gabor and Kornel were one of the first distributors in Europe to sell the PYRO FireWire card my company, ADS Tech developed in 1999. PYRO was the first IEEE 1394 OHCI FireWire card in the World! They sold thousands of cards. If you knew …
Mike McCoy will be a guest on Coast to Coast AM this coming Wednesday February 12th 10PM to Midnight https://www.coasttocoastam.com/ I’ll be discussing the dangers asteroids pose to Earth, how to defend Earth from asteroid bombardment and how to survive an impact. You can listen on the iHeart Radio app – just search for KFI-AM …
Atlas Obscura, one of my favorite sites on the internet focuses on the odd, weird, and obscure has discovered the ‘Bridge to Nowhere,’ the same bridge in my book, ASTEROIDS! Atlas Obscura included the Bridge to Nowhere located in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles in a roundup of eight bridges to …
Imagine if the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko landed on Los Angeles. The comet is approximately 2.7 miles by 2.5 miles at its longest and widest dimensions and speeds through space at 84,000 miles per hour. Like other comets, 67P probably originated in the Kuiper belt and was ejected towards the interior of the solar system. There is …
