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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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
827-Meteor Parents
One of the joys of visiting a natural night sky location on a clear dark of the Moon night is to observe meteors streaking across the sky. It took mo…
1 year, 4 months ago
314E-333-Whoppers
Recently, my Catalina Team Captain Eric Christensen discovered a potentially hazardous 3,000 foot diameter asteroid, 2017 CH1. Asteroid hunters are d…
1 year, 4 months ago
826-Ants and Asteroids
About 66 million years ago a 6 to 9 mile diameter asteroid traveling at approximately 12 miles per second slammed into the Gulf of Mexico off of the …
1 year, 5 months ago
313E-332-Greg's Destination
A winter storm hit Mt. Lemmon, Arizona closing access to the observatory by blowing over trees and producing large snow drifts. After the Mountain Op…
1 year, 5 months ago
825-Backyard Asteroid Discovery
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin’s regular job is asteroid hunting at the telescope and creating software to improve detection as well as…
1 year, 5 months ago
312E-331-Space Salsa
If Lunar and Martian colonists are to have chips and salsa they will need grow their own tomatoes. To test methods to do this German Aerospace Center…
1 year, 5 months ago
824-Catalina Near Earth Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered and repor…
1 year, 5 months ago