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839-Dodged A Meteor
Recently , for the first time, the sight and sound of a meteor impact was recorded by a doorbell camera on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Fortunately…
1 year, 1 month ago
326E-345-364days
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was using the University of Arizona's 60 inch telescope atop Mt. Lemmon when he discovered a 50 foot dia…
1 year, 2 months ago
838-Webb-Asteroid-Discoveries
Using high powered graphics processing units, a team of 21 astronomers led by Dr. Artem Y. Burdanov of MIT used 93 hours of data from the James Webb …
1 year, 2 months ago
325E-344-Gnats
Near Earth Asteroids or NEAs which are accessible are those objects whose orbits bring them close to Earth at speeds which are reachable by our rocke…
1 year, 2 months ago
837-Weird Extraterrestrial Life
We will continue to search for life as we know it by studying the chemistry of the atmospheres of extraterrestrial planets and trying to detect signa…
1 year, 2 months ago
836-Jacqui's Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when she spotted a glowing …
1 year, 2 months ago
323E-342-That's Close
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered an asteroid, 2017 EA, which is so tiny that it could pass under a basketball hoop. It missed …
1 year, 2 months ago
835-Bok Impactor
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carvajal was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aries with the Steward Observatory 90 inch Bok telescope…
1 year, 2 months ago
322E-341-Ballooning to Space
To travel to the edge of space you can strap yourself into a capsule and ride atop of a carefully controlled explosion or you can enter a crew capsul…
1 year, 3 months ago
834-Dark Comets
From our vantage point on planet Earth asteroids appear as moving points of light which strictly follow the law of gravity as they orbit the Sun. On …
1 year, 3 months ago