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844-Global Meteor Network
As the Earth travels in its orbit around the Sun it collides with objects called meteoroids traveling through space. These tiny members of the solar…
1 year ago
331E-350-Asteroid Defense
In 2013 a 56 foot diameter space rock exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia releasing the energy of 450 kt of TNT and filled local hospitals with some of…
1 year ago
843-Possible Impactor
On 27 December 2024 the Atlas group in Chile discovered an object now known as 2024 YR4 which appeared to have a significant chance of impacting Eart…
1 year, 1 month ago
330E-349-Big and Fast
I was observing with the Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope on Mt Lemmon, Arizona when a fast moving object appeared on a set of four images of th…
1 year, 1 month ago
842-Tesla Recovered
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Hydra with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona wh…
1 year, 1 month ago
329E-348-16
A clear night with excellent pinpoint star images allowed me to discover 16 near Earth approaching asteroid candidates with the Catalina Sky Survey 6…
1 year, 1 month ago
841-Moon Fragment
Astronomers have yet to discover any long lasting natural object, beside our Moon, which orbits the Earth, however, occasionally, a small space rock …
1 year, 1 month ago
328E-347-Your Space Rock
If you are luckier than a hundred million dollar power ball winner you will see your space rock as a meteor streaking across the sky, fall to the gro…
1 year, 1 month ago
840-Lunar South Pole Living
NASA has decided to make the lunar south pole the focus for human space exploration. It is a rough area consisting of high mountains, valleys, and …
1 year, 1 month ago
327E-346-Arctic Ice
Eliminating NASA's climate research programs is a bit like someone who has a CT scan which reveals a health problem demanding that the CT scan machin…
1 year, 1 month ago