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387E-424-Long Winter Nights
Winter nights can be exhausting, productive, as well as sometimes frustrating for asteroid hunters. At the Sixty Inch Telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizon…
8 hours ago
897-Kacper's Comet
In 2007 a small icy object moving in the constellation of Ursa Minor crossed the orbit of Pluto at a speed of approximately 4.2 mi/s starting its jou…
4 days, 8 hours ago
386E-423-Silent ET
Oumuamua (“Oh-moo-ah-moo-ah”) is the asteroid that zipped by the Earth on a trajectory that started beyond our solar system in truly deep space. Afte…
1 week ago
896-Sneaky But Potentially Dangerous
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he came across an unknown mo…
1 week, 4 days ago
385E-421-New Aten
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammates Carson Fuls and Greg Lenoard discovered an Aten asteroid which orbits the Sun once every 272 days and on a …
2 weeks ago
895-Tracking Space Junk
According to NASA an average of one catalogued piece of space junk per day has come down to Earth over the past 50 years. Research is described which…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
384E-420-Dry Sands
The NASA Curiosity Rover has shown us evidence of ancient rivers and bodies of liquid water on the martian surface. Given it's thin cold atmosphere, …
3 weeks ago
894-Discovery Night at the Schmidt
On a recent night my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carvajal found 4 Earth approaching space rocks with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope o…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
383E-419-ET's Cigar
In 2012 as it crossed the orbit of Neptune heading towards the Sun a small space rock was 250 times fainter than can be detected by the Hubble Space …
4 weeks ago
893-DarkSky Oregon
Artificial light at night also known as light pollution is degrading human safety and health as well as damaging the natural environment on which we …
1 month ago