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St. Patrick’s Day impact on Jupiter

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https://youtu.be/qAJI4gqX3Zg Jupiter has always been the target of impacts by comets and asteroids, but we don’t usually get to witness them. Our first opportunity was in the summer of 1994,…

A New Impact on Jupiter Captured by Amateur Astronomers

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On Sunday, March 20th, turmoil began online on web pages and popular social media sites among amateur astronomers. A few days ago reports of an impact on Jupiter began to circulate.…

Comet unexpectedly whizzes past Earth

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The article features Asteroid Day Expert Vishnu Reddy and was written by Lucy Schouten for CSMonitor.com which is not affiliated with Asteroid Day. Astronomers estimated that on March 23, a comet would fly…

To Land on an Asteroid

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This article was written by Marc Dantonio for the Huffington Post. I remember once a number of years ago when a relative in my family, a Catholic Nun named Florence showed up at…

CSU Student, Professor Confirm Five New Asteroid Orbits

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Using the Skynet robotic telescope network, professor of astrophysics Andy Puckett and planetary geology major Austin Caughey of Columbus State University’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences, have helped identify…