Via CosmicTusk.com Paleolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex (2010) Centaurs as a Hazard to Civilization (2015) Excerpted from Wolbach et. al (2018) Astronomical Hypothesis for the YDB Impact Event Regarding the probability of a swarm of cometary fragments hitting the Earth, Boslough et al. (2013) claimed that the YDB event is “statistically and physically impossible,” whereas Napier et al. (2013) […]

Via CosmicTusk.com Papers #1 and #2 and Supplementary Materials Quick take at skeptic site NeuroLogica Tallboy – Widespread Panic (1997) The Tusk inaugurates our new look here by posting the most important paper in the peer-reviewed canon of the Comet Research Group since the original PNAS publication in 2007. It is truly a new day at the Tusk. The Two […]

Via Phys.org Research suggests toward end of Ice Age, humans witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killer, thanks to a cosmic impact https://t.co/sP0cAHWCnD@Graham__Hancock @SacredGeoInt — Joe Rogan (@joerogan) February 2, 2018 Research suggests toward end of Ice Age, humans witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killer, thanks to a cosmic impact Credit: University of Kansas On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years […]

Via TheWeatherNetwork.com Friday, January 26, 2018, 6:35 PM – A small asteroid passed relatively close to Earth this month, having been discovered just six days earlier. This might sound scary, but it’s unusual that such an object would actually collide with the Earth. Each year about 50,000 tonnes of extraterrestrial material (rocks and dust) hits our planet. This comes as […]

Via Abcnews.go.com WATCHObject believed to be a meteor lights up Michigan night sky Boom! Residents of southeast Michigan were left a bit shaken Tuesday night after a big bright flash lit up the sky and the ground beneath them shook. A flying saucer? No. A shooting star? Not quite. The National Weather Service eventually solved the mystery, tweeting “USGS confirms […]

January 10, 2018, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system’s asteroid belt for billions of years, share something else in common: the ingredients for life. They are the first meteorites found to contain both liquid water and a mix of complex organic compounds such as hydrocarbons […]

Via Inquistir.com Archaeoastronomy professor thinks pharoahs used the throne to travel to the afterlife The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the wonders of the world and is a magnificent feat of ancient architecture. But an Italian professor of archaeoastronomy thinks that it contains something that makes it even more amazing. He believes that the void at the center […]

There are other reasons for visiting asteroids. For one thing, possible collisions with Earth can have devastating effects. The impact of an 15km-wide asteroid approximately 65m years ago is linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. And the explosion of the 30m-diameter Chelyabinsk asteroid over Russia in 2013 led to injuries and damage on the ground. We need to know as much as possible about the composition and physical make-up of asteroids to devise the best ways to defend our planet.

A huge asteroid called 3200 Phaethon is heading towards Earth and it’s named after a Greek god who almost caused the apocalypse Via Metro.co.uk It’s named after an ancient god who nearly wiped out humanity – so you be forgiven for feeling pretty nervous to hear about a gigantic three-mile-wide asteroid that’s set to zoom past Earth in December. A […]

Via Yahoo COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A blazing fireball lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds, giving off what scientists said was “the glow of 100 full moons” and igniting hurried attempts to find the reported meteorite. Same “fireball” from 670km away (416 miles) Finnish experts were scrambling to calculate its trajectory and find where it […]

Via Yahoo.com Mariëtte Le Roux AFPOctober 10, 2017 Paris (AFP) – A house-size asteroid will give Earth a near-miss Thursday, passing harmlessly inside the Moon’s orbit while giving experts a rare chance to rehearse for a real-life strike threat. Dubbed 2012 TC4, the space rock will shave past at an altitude of less than 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) — just […]

By Amanda Barnett, CNN Updated 2:59 PM ET, Fri September 22, 2017 (CNN)A spaceship sucessfully zipped by Earth on Friday and used our planet’s gravity to help it pick up speed on its way to explore an asteroid. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx flew about 11,000 miles (17,000 kilometers) above Antarctica at 12:52 p.m. ET. The maneuver, called an Earth gravity assist, pointed […]

Via News.com.au Nick Whigham @NWWHIGHAM     IT SOUNDS like a plot to take over the solar system and has authorities worried, but asteroid mining is about to change our pursuit for resources. GLOBAL space experts, astronauts, entrepreneurs, technologists and researchers gathered in Sydney this week to discuss the big business of space mining. As the global economy moves into […]

NASA scientists are outdoing themselves yet again: by reworking the planned route for a robotic mission to a giant asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion, they’ve managed to cut costs, launch sooner and arrive four years earlier than planned. Not bad.

Via Yahoo.com If you’re looking for an extra dose of fireworks this New Year’s Even, look to the skies for the chance to see a comet that only comes around every five years. The comet — named Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková — is set to appear somewhere near the crescent moon on Dec. 31. It won’t be visible to the naked eye, […]

Via The Guardian: December 13, 2016, 8:06 am Large and potentially dangerous asteroids and comets are extremely rare, scientists said – ‘But on the other hand they are the extinction-level events.’ A rocket in storage and ready to launch within a year ‘could mitigate the possibility of a sneaky asteroid coming in from a place that’s hard to observe, like […]

Via The New York Times Imagine if scientists discovered that an asteroid was hurtling toward Los Angeles. The possibility has existed on the pages of Hollywood scripts. But in what may be a case of life imitating art, NASA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government agencies engaged last month in a planetary protection exercise to consider the potentially […]

Via News.com.au Nick Whighamnews.com.au ASTRONOMERS in Argentina have unearthed what some believe could be the second largest meteorite ever found on Earth. The meteorite was discovered on September 10 in the town of Gancedo, 1085km north of Buenos Aires. At this point the large rock that was excavated a few days ago from Campo del Cielo — a well known […]

Via Space.com By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor | September 9, 2016 11:52am ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The asteroid-sample-return mission that launched into space yesterday (Sept. 8) may help protect Earth from future life-threatening impacts by rogue space rocks. The target of the OSIRIS-REx mission is an asteroid known as Bennu, which circles the sun just inside the orbit of Mars […]

Asteroids pop up out of nowhere sometimes. It can be a bit scary. Via PopSci.com  SECOND ASTEROID IN A MONTH SAILS BY WITHOUT US DETECTING IT FIRST DO YOU WANT EXTINCTION? THIS IS HOW YOU GET EXTINCTION. By G. Clay Whittaker 5 hours ago Know what’s really comforting? When a completely unobserved asteroid snuck up on Earth at the end […]