Synopsis
Space, Asteroid Hunting, and Astronomy, an insider view. The music is "Eternity" by John Lyell. Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact
Episodes
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265-Dancing with Earth
22/07/2016 Duration: 02minA small asteroid has become a third partner in the Earth-Moon dance.
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263-Catching Shadows
15/07/2016 Duration: 02minStudents and teachers are doing real science by measuring the shadows cast by distant objects in our solar system.
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262-Shooting Star's Daddy
12/07/2016 Duration: 02minThe source of the Geminid Meteor shower each December is a strange little asteroid Phaethon.
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261-Cool Star Homes
08/07/2016 Duration: 02minHumans are likely to discover many nearby Earth like planets orbiting cool red stars.
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260-Gliding to Space
05/07/2016 Duration: 02minAn engineless glider will take two humans and scientific gear to the edge of space.
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257-Raw Asteroid
24/06/2016 Duration: 02minA rare nearly tailless comet has been discovered. It could be made of the primitive materials which came together to form our Earth.
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255-Earth Venus Express
17/06/2016 Duration: 02minA small asteroid makes frequent visits to near Earth and Venus.
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253-Lunar Village
10/06/2016 Duration: 02minThe world's spacefaring community is preparing to build a village on our moon.
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252-The King
07/06/2016 Duration: 02minJupiter, the king of our solar system, has provided us with a place to stand and air to breathe.
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251-Fresh Lunar Craters
03/06/2016 Duration: 02minFresh lunar craters tell us about objects which enter the Earth-Moon system.
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250-Born Wild
31/05/2016 Duration: 02minOur home planet was formed after a period of chaos in the solar system.
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248-Incoming
24/05/2016 Duration: 02minA close approaching asteroid was observed as it passed between the Earth and our Moon.
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247-Potential Mining Target
20/05/2016 Duration: 02minMy Catalina Sky Survey teammates have discovered an asteroid which could be a potential mining target.
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246-Anatomy Of An Extinction Crater
17/05/2016 Duration: 02minBy drilling into a crater rim, researchers hope to discover how the Earth and it's life forms recovered from an asteroid impact.