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| Asteroid Vesta - every other day from April 26 to May 2, 2025 as seen from my backyard. |
A Bullet With Our Name on it.
They are dark, tiny and almost invisible - yet they can change life on earth in an instant.
Asteroids.
Relatively small among space objects, these are especially hard to see in the darkness of space. Even with telescopes, they are hard to find due to their distance and low reflectance of sunlight. But more than stealth, what makes them deadly is speed. With velocities of up to tens of thousands of miles per hour - they are like cosmic bullets zipping through space, silently. And from time to time, one of them has our name on it.
Of all astronomical phenomena touching the earth, perhaps next to sunlight, these otherwise innocuous space rocks can have the greatest ability to impact life on earth. As some of them already have.
