Category Archives: Astronomy

Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: Asteroids, comets, brown dwarfs, and more

The latest Planetary Society Weekly Hangout deals with “Being WISE about asteroids, comets, and brown dwarfs with Amy Main”:

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Astronomy, Multiple media

I especially like this one:

Alan Boyle posts several excellent photos of Comet PanSTARRS, including one by Mike Massee of XCOR showing the comet, the Moon, a mountain, and many Mojave windmills: Moon pairs up with Comet PanSTARRS for big show – PhotoBlog.

Here’s a video about observing the comet this spring:

A call for more amateur astronomers to help find and track asteroids that could potentially threaten earth: Amateur Astronomers Can Help Planetary Defense – Space Safety Magazine.

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Checking the blogs at some citizen science projects:

A review of the goals of the project: Moon Zoo Science Goals – Moon Zoo – March.4.13
This older post has an interesting discussion of how strings of craters can be created: Crater Chains – Moon Zoo – Aug.30.10

A video on the development of online community type projects: Planet Hunters: An Online Community – Planet Hunters – March.2.13
An answer to the question of whether sunspots can produce simliar affect as the transit of a planet across the face of a star: Starspots and Transits – Planet Hunters – Feb.11.13

A discussion of the color filtering used with the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and how it creates images different that you would see in person: Let’s talk about color – Planet Four Blog – March.5.13
A description of Martian days and years: Martian Timekeeping – Planet Four Blog – Feb.11.13