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338E-357-Double Trouble
When I discovered 2014 JO25 with the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on May 5, 2014, it appeared as a single point of light as it…
1 year ago
850-Who Owns A Space Rock
Since there is a world wide market for meteorites some of which can be sold for millions of dollars, on line, the question of ownership becomes impor…
1 year ago
337E-356-Seeds
When a fleet of interstellar spaceships leaves our solar system for a planet circling a nearby star the most important of all of the riches that huma…
1 year, 1 month ago
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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month ago