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A tiny but actually important discovery was made on the night of March 24, 1993. That average night, a photo of the stars was taken by the 0.4 meter telescope on Palomar Mountain in California. Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy studied that photo of the stars and found an unknown comet. That comet caused a huge impact.

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Some waking thoughts on the destruction of worlds.

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We exist in a very dangerous universe. Objects from space collide with earth all the time. Some of these are small and have little effect but others are massive and capable of change our planet forever or blowing it to pieces.

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Asteroids and Comets. What are they? Detailed explanation.

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Rethinking the planets and solar system.

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Asteroids are known to all of us as a flying lump of rock in space that could threaten human kind and life on Earth. But what if I told you that millions of years ago they were a factor of life on earth and a main ingredient of what we are today.

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An objet trouvé in my personal collection might be an iron meteorite. It is a very heavy, iron nodule of irregular size and shape. It has a rusty patina and many “regmaglypts” (thumbprints) which are tell-tale indicators of a genuine iron meteorite.

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How can we stop another asteroid impact? There are options but what are we doing to implement them.

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Beyond global warming, fiery chunks of massive celestial bodies rocketing towards earth may be our final impact and completely out of our control.

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How many near-Earth objects are out there and what NASA is learning about them.