Australian Sky & Telescope - June 2018

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 21 growing, and can be accessed at https:// datacentral.aao.gov.au. Beside its staff, its inst ...

I n July 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 spectacularly riddled Jupiter with immense chunks of its erstwhile self — a never-before-s ...

major crop failures, and conceivably ending civilisation as we know it. (By comparison, the ‘dino killer’ at the end of the Cret ...

24 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 GRAPH: GREGG DINDERMAN / S&T , SOURCE: ALAN HARRIS; HOBA METEORITE: RUL ORNELAS ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 25 X BATTLE SCARS Researchers have found 190 confirmed impact structures on Earth, from littl ...

26 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 THE IMPACT HAZARD ASTEROID POSITIONS: CNEOS; FIREBALL MAP: ALAN CHAMBERLIN (CNEOS / ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 27 GREGG DINDERMAN / S&T, SOURCE: ALAN CHAMBERLIN (CNEOS / JPL-CALTECH / NASA) onein10will ...

28 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 ASTEROID PLUNDERING by Dan Durda W e’ve been to asteroids before. Several of them, i ...

Bennu Ryugu Earth s Mercury Sun http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 29 Earth will reveal precious new information that even our va ...

30 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 water, and Ryugu is a small, airless world without weather, the possible presence of ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 31 While the overall design philosophy for both missions may be roughly similar (fly out to a ...

32 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 speedpassesseveralkilometresfromtheasteroidandacouple months in an initial 1.5-km-hi ...

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34 AUSTRALIANSKY&TELESCOPEJuly 2018 http://www.skyandtelescope.com.au 34 capsule will enter the atmosphere over the Utah Tes ...

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The Red Planet is at its biggest and brightest. Read on for the best tips on what to see. Mars the returns 36 AUSTRALIAN SKY &am ...

W e’ve waited 15 long years and now it’s time to party. Mars reaches perihelic opposition — an opposition when a planet is at it ...

38 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE July 2018 Asalways,yourbeststrategyistoobservetheplanetas often as possible to maximise the ch ...

SOUTHPOLE:ESA/DLR/FUBERLIN/BILLDUNFORD;ALBEDOMARKINGS:DAMIANPEACH/G REGG DINDERMAN ( S&T ); APPARITION: ALPO; HELLAS: ESA / ...

and Sinus Meridiani (east of Syrtis Major); the great bands of Mare Tyrrhenum and Mare Cimmerium that stretch west ofSyrtisMajor ...