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346E-369-Finding Treasure
The energy required to lift water, food, and construction materials from the Earth's surface is very expensive. Asteroids come relatively close to Ea…
1 year, 3 months ago
858-Vanishing Dark and Quiet
Sadly humans seem to be in the process of creating a cosmic land fill which will blot out much of the cosmos.
1 year, 3 months ago
345E-368-Asteroid Alert
When Asteroid hunters discover a new object it is given a score ranging from 0 which means it is likely to be a distant main belt asteroid up to 100 …
1 year, 3 months ago
857-Gila Cliff Dwellings
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Dr. Hannes Gröller and I traveled to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument to install two night sky met…
1 year, 3 months ago
344E-367-Future Impactor
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered a 33 foot diameter asteroid which has about a 1.1% chance of impacting the Earth on 569 encoun…
1 year, 3 months ago
856-Big One
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carvajal was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cepheus with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on M…
1 year, 3 months ago
343E-366-3 Explorers
Recently, my Grandsons, Dane and Hank joined our asteroid hunting team at the Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon. The most interesti…
1 year, 3 months ago
855-Planetary Defense
In 2016 NASA created the Planetary Defense Coordination Office to manage the mission of finding, tracking, and studying asteroids and comets which co…
1 year, 3 months ago
342E-365-Tabby's Star
The mystery of Tabby's star began to unfold when in 2015 Dr. Tabetha S. Boyajian [boy-AA-jee-uhn] of Louisiana State University and her team publishe…
1 year, 3 months ago
854-Weird Planet Exotic Life?
Data are consistent with the hypothesis that the planet K2-18b is a Hycean planet with a warm liquid water ocean teaming with life and a thin hydroge…
1 year, 4 months ago