Hunting for Dangerous Asteroids
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- čas přidán 16. 12. 2019
- Bob Stephens from California tracks and characterizes dangerous near-Earth asteroids. The equipment needed for such a task doesn't last forever. With help from our members, asteroid hunters can upgrade their equipment to make sure we find asteroids before they find us.
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Some heroes don't wear capes. This is a great example on how a single person could literally save the entire planet.
1:25 is hilarious. Great story.
I've studied astronomy half my life, and been doing astrophotography for a few years now. I've always been interested in asteroid hunting,cataloging and tracking. You need a relatively large aperture to resolve small low apparent magnitude objects like asteroids. Also a nice tracking mount, both are preety expensive, not including the cooled ccd sensors. Mabye one day I'll have a nice setup, and join the pepole like this in the effort to catalog these near earth objects. I had no idea that this kind of optical array existed in the astronomy community. Very interesting, I might do some more research on it.
You can do a lot with even modest equipment. There are a lot of brighter asteroids that still need refinement of their orbits you can image and measure. I hope to soon have a larger instrument, but I've been doing asteroid astrometry for the past 3 years with a 127mm refractor.
Excellent video information 👍👍👍👍
I'm proud to be a member and support this!
thank you guys.
Great work. Amazing set up. Lovely passion. Incredible journey.
As a retired spacecraft engineer, what effort can I contribute to help defend the planet, without money? (Computing?)
Dang that’s cool
Well we know there’s one coming at this very moment on December 2019
I wonder how Bob does the tax write-offs on his telescopes. I couldn't justify getting a 24 inch telescope until I found out about this project.
You know Hindi sir
False preposition, it's already hit the earth, therefore what would we do about: nothing