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Eddie Irizarry

Eddie Irizarry

Eddie Irizarry of the Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe (Astronomical Society of the Caribbean) has been a NASA Solar System Ambassador since 2004. He loves public outreach and has published multiple astronomy articles for EarthSky, as well as for newspapers in Puerto Rico. He has also offered dozens of conferences related to asteroids and comets at the Arecibo Observatory.

Small asteroid zipped through Earth’s atmosphere

By in Earth | Space | 2 weeks ago
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The IAU confirmed that the asteroid originally designated ZLAF9B2 – now called 2018 LA – disintegrated at a height of 30 miles (50 km) over South Africa on June 2, 2018.

Very close asteroid encounter today

By in Space | 1 month ago
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Asteroid 2010 WC9 will pass at about half the moon’s distance, in one of the closest approaches ever observed of an asteroid of this size.

Insight Mars is on its way

By in Human World | Space | 1 month ago
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The Insight Mars lander is due to set down on Mars’ surface in November, 2018.

Asteroid buzzed Earth this weekend

By in Space | 2 months ago
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2018 GE3 swept by at half the moon’s distance Sunday, just hours after being detected. Its size is 3 to 6 times that of the space rock that penetrated the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.

See asteroid 2017 VR12 as it swept past

By and in Space | 3 months ago
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Asteroid 2017 VR12 passed at 3.76 times the moon’s distance on March 7. Here are images and video of its sweep past Earth.

How to see rock-comet 3200 Phaethon

By in Astronomy Essentials | Space | 6 months ago
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You can’t see 3200 Phaethon – parent of the Geminid meteor shower and a strange asteroid-comet hybrid – with the eye alone. But backyard telescopes can pick it up. Charts and more here.

Asteroid to sweep close October 11-12

By and in Human World | Space | 8 months ago
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Asteroid 2012 TC4 is being used as a test of Earth’s global asteroid defense system. How to see it online.

How to see binocular comet C/2017 O1

By in Astronomy Essentials | 9 months ago
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This faint comet reaches perihelion, its closest point to the sun, on October 14. It’ll be closest to Earth on October 18, passing distantly at about 67 million miles (108 million km).

Asteroid Florence found to have 2 moons

By in Astronomy Essentials | Space | 10 months ago
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3122 Florence passed yesterday, biggest near-Earth object to pass so close in a century. Radar revealed 2 orbiting moons! Plus a chart that’ll help you spot the asteroid.

See 4 planets during the total eclipse

By in Astronomy Essentials | 10 months ago
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During a total solar eclipse, the daytime sky darkens, and bright stars and planets pop into view. Charts here, identifying which ones for the August 21, 2017 eclipse.