Midnight On The (Cosmic) Firing Line

[Oxytropidoceras]

Below are a selection of news articles, of varying

sensationalism, to remind everyone what crowded

and potentially dangerous solar, neighborhood

that we occupy.

 

NASA Asteroid Hunter Explains the Risks that

Near Earth Objects Pose to Planet, Hanna Osborne,

Newsweek,

http://www.newsweek.com/asteroid-day-nasa-risk-earth-neos-629965

 

Space rock found to be travelling With Earth

Scientists have discovered that Earth is being

tailed by an Asteroid, Sean Martin, Express.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/868068/ASTEROID-belt-nasa-end-of-the-world-earth-orbit

 

Asteroid 2012 TC4: Space rock could come

back and Smash into Earth in the near future

The asteroid which had a near miss with Earth

could come back and smash into the planet in

the future, researchers have warned,

Sean Martin, Express, Oct 13, 2017

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/866149/Asteroid-2012-TC4-hit-Earth-end-of-the-world-nasa-esa

 

How We Discovered, Lost, and Rediscovered

the First Asteroid. It was a lot of math and

staring through telescopes. Popular Mechanics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a28667/how-we-discovered-lost-and-rediscovered-the-first-asteroid/

 

Samples Brought Back From Asteroid Itokawa

Reveal 'Rubble Pile' Had a Violent Past, Curtin

University Posted October 18, 2017

http://spaceref.com/asteroids/samples-brought-back-from-asteroid-itokawa-reveal-rubble-pile-had-a-violent-past.html

 

Near-Earth Objects News

https://watchers.news/category/near-earth-objects/

 

What I am worried about is not the asteroids

that we know about. What worries me are the

asteroids that we do not know about and appear

abruptly out of the darkness like a drunk driver

on a New Orleans street.

 

Go read “Asteroid 2017 TF5 flew past Earth at

0.73 LD, 4 days before discovery, October 16, 2017

https://watchers.news/2017/10/16/asteroid-2017-tf5/

 

Unlike the dinosaurs, we have, if we want it, the

technology to possibly defend ourselves from

wayward asteroids.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Missourian]

"An asteroid is approaching the earth and we're all going to die!"..... a true statement, technically.