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AD Stories: Mark Boslough’s Chelyabinsk Fragments

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Our final Asteroid Day story comes from Mark Boslough, the chair of the Asteroid Day Expert Panel (ADXP) and expert on planetary impacts. Mark has maybe the most romantic story of all…

AD Stories: Mario Jurić’s Childhood Telescope

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AD Stories is back! Today were putting the spotlight on Mario Jurić, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington. Mario also had a story to share, about how a childhood…

AD Stories: Sabinije von Gaffke and Childlike Wonder

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In our ongoing AD stories series on our Asteroid Day LIVE panel participants’ personal tales and relationships to asteroids, we turn to one of our hosts, Sabinije von Gaffke. The founder…

AD Stories: Alan Fitzsimmons on an Impactful Night in Sudan

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Yesterday we heard about the importance of international collaboration in the hunt for asteroids and asteroid research. Alan Fitzsimmons, Professor of Astronomy at the Queen’s University Belfast Astrophysics Research Centre, provides us…

Asteroids and Inclusivity in Chile

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Yesterday, the news of a special Asteroid Day event by the Diego Portales University‘s (Universidad Diego Portales) Astronomy Hub reached us here at Asteroid Day HQ. The faculty – having made…