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832-Backyard Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin has discovered 13 comets using our team’s professional telescopes. Recently he discovered a 14th comet a…
1 year, 2 months ago
319E-338-Psyche Bound
When the material came together to form our home planet, gravity was strong enough to pull the heavy materials like iron to the center, giving our pl…
1 year, 2 months ago
831-Finding Dangerous Comets
Meteor shower data can provide an additional warning time for a potentially dangerous comet of from 1 to 12 years giving humans extra time to determi…
1 year, 2 months ago
318E-337-Lucy
Jupiter's Trojan asteroids lead and follow the giant planet around the Sun occupying stable locations where Jupiter and the Sun's gravity balance eac…
1 year, 2 months ago
830-Imaging Alien Worlds
Through out history humans have dreamed about living creatures on planets orbiting distant stars. As technology has improved and our robotic missions…
1 year, 2 months ago
317E-336-Meteorite Mystery
A research expedition to near the south pole is developing to investigate a meteorite mystery. Meteorites landing on the Antarctica ice sheet are slo…
1 year, 2 months ago
829-Space Weather and National Security
The Sun emits a solar wind of charged particles reaching speeds of more than a million miles per hour, bursts of energetic ultraviolet photons, huge …
1 year, 2 months ago
316E-335-DART
A stony asteroid 130m or about 430 feet in diameter has a mass of 3 billion Kg or 6.5 billion pounds. Such an object is likely to strike the Earth ev…
1 year, 2 months ago
828-Alive With Light
Most humans live in cities under a dome of light pollution. They have never witnessed that the natural night sky is not dark; but rather it is alive …
1 year, 3 months ago
315E-334-Last 19 Hours
2008 TC3 was discovered by my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski on October 6, 2008. It is the first of only 9 asteroids which humans have…
1 year, 3 months ago