But there is a downside to Jupiter. It can also deflect asteroids into orbits that cross the Earths path. The Chelyabinsk meteor appears to be one of these typical Earth-crossing events. The likelihood is that it was thrown out of its regular orbit b...
Weknew from the radar measurements where Golevka was within a few tens of metres.And yet it was actually 12 or 15 kilometres away from where it was predicted tobe without Yarkovsky effect. So these very precise radar observations allowedus to see the...
Heset out to investigate a hundred-year-old theory that said asteroids werepowered by the Sun itself. It was called the Yarkovsky effect. The Yarkovskyeffect is a very small acceleration and acts on asteroids and what it is is ifyou take a model, the...
Itsremarkable how we are able to build up this picture of whats going on millionsof miles away in the solar system. Its one of the joys of science really, justalmost like a detective picking up on those tiny clues to tell a bigger story. Sothat the b...
Well,the early reports are that it is an ordinary chondrite and that means it willbe similar to this one. So this is really exciting for us as scientists becausewe want to know how the planets formed, what was around before the planets, whatthe envir...
By collecting and comparing meteorites, scientistshave been able to piece together a picture of how they form and these studieshave revealed some of the most remarkable rocks in the solar system. Few places in the world have got as many meteoritesas...
Meteor strikes as big as this may be rare butscientists have a surprisingly detailed knowledge of what meteorites are andwhere they come from. Long before the meteorite reached its explosivefinale in full view of Chelyabinsks dash cams, it had a very...
The explosion generated a shockwave so massive it wasdetected over 15,000 kilometres away. The low-frequency waves were picked up bymonitoring stations. So it is kind of like a listening network around theworld. Thats right. Theyre not set up for fir...
Amazing images. But what can you get out of these asan expert? What it shows us, first of all, is a great record ofthe entry of the object into the Earths atmosphere. So you see it right fromthe moment it really penetrated. And there it is. That is t...
I was shocked. I was truly shocked. I never thought Iwould see an event like this over a major city during my lifetime. We couldnt predict this was going to happen. The pieceof rock that actually entered the atmosphere was relatively small, maybe onl...
This isnt the first time its happened. Over thelast few years, scientists have examined many other devastating impacts in theEarths past. Using this knowledge, I want to answer the key questions that theChelyabinsk meteor strike raises. Where did thi...
For the residents of the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, the morning of Friday, February 15, 2013 began like any other. As they set off to work in what has become a craze throughout Russia, many recorded their journeys, but these cameras usually used fo...
In 1968, a Storey county judge ordered his brothel close and he wanted a thousand dollars per month for the next five months. Joe paid the thousand dollars but stayed open. He knows the police would come by and they didn't do anything and he thinks a...
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