I’m adding three new links to the space section related to atmospheric phenomena: meteors and their brightest versions bolides. Some of you may remember the Chelyabinsk bolide over Russia in 2013. We’re coming up on the 10 year anniversary of the event. I acutely rememeber the sureal feeling while watching several of the YT videos linked in the media section of that Wikipedia article. It still feels like watching a SciFi movie today.
While the AMS Meteors people do have some regular articles on their homepage, the XML document linked under the RSS icon is not an RSS or Atom feed. It would be better to find an enthusiast blog (with RSS/Atom) to follow along the significant events in this space. If you know of one, send me an email (below).
Beyond this, there is the Center for Near Earth Objects at JPL, including close approaches, which could be interesting to try and observe. Note that they have a new feed, which you can find the url of at this page.
The IAU Minor Planet Center also detects and reports Near Earth Asteroids as they are identified. It’s left as an exercise to the reader to interpret the significance of any NEA report, unfortunately.
See more links on the Interesting Links page.
Email me if you know more about this than I do.
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