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849-Europa-Clipper
NASA’s Europa Clipper was launched October 14, 2024 on a mission to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter’s Moon Europa. The space craft will travel s…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
336E-355-2 Suns
The NASA Kepler Spacecraft has discovered more than 2,000 planets which have been confirmed to be orbiting distant stars. It performs this remarkable…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
848-C.2024 E1 (Wierzchos)
On March 3, 2024 my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spot…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
335E-354-Returnee
On May 5, 2014 when I discovered 2014 JO25 with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona it was the brightest, fastest aste…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
847-Ultra Distant Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Gröller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with the University of Arizona 90 inch Bok tel…
1 year ago
334E-353-Backwards
Using the University of Arizona's Large Binocular Telescope atop Mt. Graham in southern Arizona, Dr. Paul Wiegert of Western University in Canada, le…
1 year ago
846-Bright Nights
One little known and infrequently observed phenomenon in the natural night sky are “bright nights” during which observers have reported being able to…
1 year ago
333E-352-Worth Tracking
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was observing with our team's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon in Arizona when he discovered a relatively…
1 year ago
845-Mighty Schmidt
On a single February night my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqui Fazekas reported the discovery of 5 Earth approaching objects using our small but …
1 year ago
332E-351-Another Close One
Asteroid hunters have become aware of the many small space rocks which come near Earth because of improvements made to telescopes, cameras, and compu…
1 year ago