CBS Detroit – There is a video on Youtube that says that we are about to have another “very close encounter” with an asteroid. What the California Jet Propulsion Laboratory calls “Near Earth Objects” or NEO. Now keep in mind that asteroids have approached or hit our planet for millions …
Read More »Volcanoes may have helped life rebound after attack by dinosaur-killing asteroid
On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
Read More »Meteor hunting and how to differentiate between a space rock and a terrestrial rock
[ad_1] If you look at the sky at night long enough, you will almost certainly see a shooting star – a bright, fine light that pierces the sky. Shooting stars, or meteorites, are often the last we will see of the rock that caused its bright flash in the sky …
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