Asteroid
Good morning. I’m Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History and it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Museum and to this fantastic Rose Center for Earth and Space. We...
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How did we get to go to Abbey Road? Well that was my rather daring idea that was meant to discourage the guys... ... because... it's like someone asking you: "What would you like for...
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New Year's Asteroid Strike - presented by Science@NASA In 2014, the New Year began with a bang - on the order of about 500 tons of TNT. That's how much energy asteroid 2014 AA is...
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Most of us can remember playing tag as a kid. It was an easy game to learn: identify your target, run around, touch, and get out of there. Pretty simple, if you're on Earth. Now, how would you...
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How can sunlight make ordinary asteroids dangerous? Join the 321science team as they explore the Yarkovsky effect. On a pleasant day in the Cretaceous, about sixty-five million years ago, a...
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Why do snakes lie on the road at night, and how does this relate to asteroids? Join the 321Science team as we explore the concept of thermal inertia. What is "Thermal Inertia"? To...
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Researchers at Harvard have designed, built and tested a flow battery that relies on a molecule found in plants called quinone. This battery doesn’t require metal, making it a potentially much...
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The sun is quite big, but did you know that the sun makes up 99.96 percent of our solar systems mass? That leaves a small 0.14 percent for all the planets, asteroids and other matter around the solar...
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Meteoroids are smaller pieces of rock that have originated from asteroids. A streak of light called a meteor is seen when a meteoroid enters and burns in the Earth's atmosphere. When a...
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