There seems to be a flurry of interest and news articles about asteroids impacting Earth lately. Hmm, I wonder if somebody knows something but isn’t telling? I thought it would be frightfully fun to share a video created by MetaBallStudios that demonstrates the impact and damage caused by asteroids of various sizes. Buckle up sunshine…you’re …
If you’ve read my previous posts, this is exactly what I have warned about. Asteroids coming toward Earth from the direction of the sun are extremely hard to spot. Just like the ‘surprise’ meteor explosion in Chelyabinsk Feb. 15, 2013, which was not observed before exploding with the energy equivalent of a 400-500 kiloton blast. …
On the Waterfront – launches February 13, 2023 I was twelve years old when this story came to me, the essence of the story, anyway. I was a scout at Camp Baker staying at the Tyee campsite. One morning, I was having some intestinal issues. I sat in a wooden outhouse on a bluff overlooking Siltcoos lake …
At sixty-four years old, I am at peace, yet the struggle continues. The intensity of youthful ambition has ebbed. I find the quest now more refined. The angst of youth, the passion that drives one to push forward toward success, has waned, yet the desire to create is strong, smooth like a river it flows …
The Government kept news of an interstellar object SECRET for 8 Years! The main premise of ASTEROIDS – Bridge to Nowhere might not be far off. The government knew an asteroid storm was headed toward Earth…and kept it secret. I wonder what else our government is keeping secret. Back in 2014, a fireball exploded in …
A critical element in planetary defense and the search for dangerous asteroid continues to plod along. The Neo Surveyor, previously named NeoCam has been on the drawing board for more than a decade. While getting approval to move to the next stage of development, the earliest date this new telescope could launch is 2026. In …
NASA Approves Continued Development of Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope Read More »
Earth has been knocked about quite a bit by asteroid strikes during its long history. All of the planets in our solar system have been heavily bombarded at one time or another, just look at the Moon. Asteroid strikes still occur, just not as often or as dramatically in the past. Nearly 170 terrestrial impact …
If you check websites like spaceweather.com or NASA’s CENEOS (Center for Near Earth Object Studies) and view the list of projected asteroid close approaches, you won’t find the little bugger that just snuck past us. That’s because 2021 GW4 was discovered just days before it nearly smacked into Earth! As I have said repeatedly, “It’s …
An asteroid came ‘exceptionally close’ to hitting Earth… Again! Read More »
Well, we aren’t safe from all asteroids, but a recent radar survey of the asteroid Apophis, sometimes referred to by the name,” God of Chaos” has plotted the orbit of the asteroid and declared Earth safe from impact for the next 100 years. As Apophis made its flyby on March 5, 2021, it was tracked …
NASA Declares Earth Safe from Asteroid for 100 Years Read More »
It rained in Los Angeles today. Rain in Los Angeles is a rare event. The months of February and March make up the short winter rainy season in Southern California. It can rain one or two days, or there can be a downpour that lasts several days before the weather returns to our normal sunny …
