A fireball traveling at 33,500 mph and exploding over California on Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 was a meteor about the size of a mini van. The resulting booms were heard across Nevada and California a little after 8am. Eyewitness reported a streaking light accompanied by a sonic boom flooded in from Lake Tahoe, El Dorado [...]
We had declared 2009 ‘Year of the Fireball‘, but events like the massive fireball that was seen over the Northern UK on March 3rd, 2012 could be the sign of things to come in 2012. At around 9:45 PM local time, reports starting pouring in from Knutsford, Glasgow, Greater Manchester, and across Scotland of a [...]
Asteroid 2011 AG5, at over 450 feet in width, was discovered in January 2011 by Mount Lemmon Survey observers in Tucson, Arizona and currently has an impact probability of 1 in 625 for Feb. 5, 2040. Full article on discovery.com. Even at 1 n 625, the question of what would happen with a near [...]
YIKES! Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass closer to the Earth than the orbit of the Moon on November 8th, 2011. At over 1300 feet in length, this one would cause some serious damage if it struck the Earth. This is the nearest pass of a know space rock since 1976 and there won’t be another [...]
Only 8 months ago, amateur Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin discovered Comet Elenin and was able to predicts its path, which brings it about the same distance as the planet Venus from Earth on September 10th, 2011, then again on October 16th, 2011. Linda Moulton Howe of EarthFiles.com speaks with Don Yeomans, Ph.D., Manager, Near-Earth Object [...]
David Martines has found what he believes to be a space station or other object on the surface of Mars by studying Google’s Maps of Mars. Located at coordinates 71 49’19.73″N 29 33’06.53″W, the object is estimated to be 700ft long by 150ft wide and possibly have red and blue striping. Share Weird Tweet
Time to ramp up the 2012 and Nibiru media machine, it seems a giant planet 4 times the size of Jupiter may be lurking beyond the Oort cloud (a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets, gas, and debris which may lie nearly a light-year from the Sun). It seems Prof Daniel Whitmire from the University of [...]
NASA has called a press conference for tomorrow that will “impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life”. The rumor mill has everything from them announcing that they detected chemical evidence of bacteria utilizing arsenic for photosynthesis on Titan to the declaration of extraterrestrial life being encountered. NASA will hold a news conference at 2 [...]
Iron Sky is a science fiction comedy being produced by Blind Spot Pictures and Energia Productions in Finland, and co-produced by 27 Films in Germany and New Holland Pictures in Australia. The plot goes that World War Two SS officer Hans Kammler makes a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity and the Nazi spaceships were launched in [...]
The joint NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), sitting at the L1 point between the Earth and the sun, has spotted a large coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting in the direction of Earth. While not an unusually massive eruption, the blast was at the same time as another phenomenon on the sun, called a ‘filament’, [...]