My fascination with Asteroids and Near Earth Objects started in 1979. I didn’t have a telescope or any knowledge of the cosmos. Asteroids was a game I played. I went down to the old railroad depot, went into the bar-restaurant, waited my turn, then I would drop five dollars in quarters. One after another, I would lose, quarters and fighter ships, until they were all gone. My little brother Keith was better at playing Asteroids than I, in fact, he was excellent at playing Space Invaders. Keith had the highest Space Invader score at the depot. Space Invaders was a game I hated, made me feel claustrophobic. The further I advanced in Space Invaders, the speed and sound would increase. The invading ships would drop down from the sky, and I would panic. Compared to today’s standards, Asteroids was a simple game, with simple graphics, it was less advanced than Pac-Man but slightly more graphic than Pong. Unfortunately, my mother moved us from Arcadia, Florida back to Lockport, NY. Living in Lockport meant no more video games for me because getting money was difficult, I had to apply for a job. However, when I lived In Arcadia, I stood on a corner at 03:00 AM and we would all get picked up and trucked to work. We worked from sunrise until just after sunset . It didn't matter if it was a school day, as long as I worked like a man, I got paid …show more content…
I would lay on my back and stare up and into the night. I'd lay there in deep thought. I laid there blocking out the noise, and all the things that reminded me that I was still here on earth. Now and then, a fiery ball of light would move fast across the nighttime sky, bending ever so slightly as it flew through our alien atmosphere. Shooting stars is what they are called, however, In my youth, I imagined they were the remains of comets or asteroids that the Army shot down and subsequently foiled the plans of the aliens trying to destroy our
Not long ago on the 15th of February 2013 an asteroid named 2012 DA14 merely scrapped the earth’s surface by a tiny margin, even closer than some satellites. According to the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) the asteroid was 17,200 miles above our planet's surface, which may seem a long way from earth. However, in terms how big the earth is compared to the 17,200 miles, we can acknowledge that many people were saved from death.
Halley’s Comet or Comet Halley is a comet who orbits earth every 74.5 years! This comet is also the most known comet ever to be documented! Halley is very interesting comet.
... be made in opposition, you're probably thinking, “They are prototype Military Aircraft” or “They were nothing but hoaxes”. While I am sure that many of them are secret craft and Hoaxes. I must ask you do you really believe that our Military would field a strange hieroglyphic Acorn flying through the sky only for it to strangely crash? Or a group of Teenage pranksters somehow built a catapult that launched a huge metal Acorn across 6 different states? With this in mind surely it is not hard to believe that: Aliens, Do, Exist.
A successful space program is needed in America, and here’s why: we are losing our grip on the title of the world superpower and a new age of economics and politics is coming faster than we are prepared for. To be prepared for this new age we need the funds, which can be found in our space. The most deadly of those threats: asteroids. Don Yeoman, an employee at the Jet Propulsion Lab, a NASA facility, tracks over 600,000 asteroids every day.
Sixty-Five million years ago, 70 percent of life on Earth died. The most reasonable and possible reason this happened was an asteroid. An asteroid hit the Earth very hard, and in doing this, dirt and dust from the impact stayed in the air and it blocked out sunlight, that’s why the dinosaurs died. An asteroid is a rock from outer space. Asteroids have orbited the Sun along with the planets since the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, but it’s only been 200 years since we first discovered them. Meteorites are small pieces of asteroids broken off on impact with other asteroids. Most meteorites are rusty brown on the outside, have rounded edges from melting as they go through Earth’s atmosphere, and contain iron. There are 3 different types of meteorites: stony, metallic, and stony metallic.92 percents of all asteroids are stone, 6 percent are made of iron and nickel, and the rest are a combination. Some meteorites also contain gold, copper, platinum, and carbon.
Human fascination with the stars is as ancient as Babylonians and has been suggested to be older than Stonehenge. From “be fruitful and multiply” to “live long and prosper,” the instinct to protect and propagate the species has manifested in religion, art, and the imaginations of countless individuals. As human understanding of space treks out of the fantastical and into the scientific, the realities of traveling through and living in space are becoming clearer. Exploring, investigating, and living in space pose an expansive series of problems. However, the solutions to the problems faced by mankind's desire to reach beyond the horizon, through the night sky, and into the stars are solutions that will help in all areas of life on Earth.
"The military intelligence, two words combined that cannot make sense," Megadeath says in their song Hangar 18, could not be more correct. No matter what the military tells you, they are probably lying or wrong. How can you explain the countless encounters with aliens people have all the time? Missiles?
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Space debris are all manmade objects, including their parts and fragments, whether their owners can be recognized or not, in Earth orbit or re-entering the dense layers of the atmosphere that is worthless with no reasonable bated breath of their being able to assume or resume their proposed functions or any other functio...
Space.com https://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html Important information from the source: When the solar system was created, asteroid was small pieces of rock floating around the Earth. This was about 4.6 billion years ago. When Jupiter became Jupiter, Jupiter and Mars got a gap between each other causing the small rocks (asteroids) to float around them. Before the asteroid hit the Earth the asteroid and many asteroids were floating around space.
Mysteries are so fascinating because mysteries are like taking unknown information, discovering it, and making it known. Discovering why dinosaurs went extinct is looking into the discovery of their extinction and why they are extinct. Dinosaurs were the largest reptiles known to man, and around 65 million years ago, dinosaurs became extinct. Two-hundred and thirty million years ago the first dinosaur-like creature roamed the earth. These creatures were the top of the food chain, and it is crazy to think that the most dominant of all species became extinct. But there had to be either a theory such as ‘The Asteroid theory’, ‘The Ice Age theory’, or the ‘Volcano Theory’ to explain such drastic measures for the entire population to die out. This is where the mystery takes place and begins.
“Sheltered as we are by Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which deflect lethal radiation from space, we are like coddled children who have never ventured into a tough neighborhood” (Folger 2). Humans have been fascinated with space since the beginning of our time. Just like children and rough neighborhoods, we have tackled obstacle over obstacle to make it home again. In the end, we have a better knowledge and strength than before. The future of space exploration can assist us in answering the everlasting question of how the universe came to be. The more we explore the infinite galaxies, the more we can scientifically discover and create new technologies as science advances. As we continue to discover, we can create new fields and occupations for aspiring young students like myself.
Soon Earth will run out of usable resources, where would we turn to next? Are humans going to create global conflict with other nations around the world? Will constant war be the Earth near future? Fighting for resources is mainly what humans fight for today, but with resources falling short we might have to resort to a new way of life. Make way for a new cash crop, make way for new technology, make way for the next step to human development.
Layers of rock and minerals wrap around the dense metal core of the asteroids, similar to planets. Inside the asteroid there are glass like veins running all throughout the outer layer of the rock. These massive space rocks are also jam packed with carbon compounds that could have played a crucial role in seeding our planet with the raw ingredients of life. Studying asteroids can, and has, given us clues as to how our solar system came to be. Asteroids are rocky objects, varying from the size of automobiles to the size of a city.
Space has always been a pivotal and utmost important subject for many years. In the past, scientists have made monumental advances in this field such as sending people into orbit and landing a man on the moon. Of course, this has only barely been explored and we still have a lot more to see of the ever-vast outer space. One of the most significant topics of all of science has only been touched and there’s still more to come.