Quite often, several objects from space, including asteroids, meteoroids, and space debris, pass near our planet, but only a few come to our notice. While most of them are small and disappear in the ...
The John J. McCarthy Observatory — run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School — has been watching the night sky for 25 years.
Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...