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805-Very Close Miss
During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters observed 23 asteroids which came closer to us than our Moon. Six of them passed closer to the Earth’s surface than 22,236 miles which is the distance to…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
292E-310-Ethics and Mars
Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration?
It is unlikely that any living organism could survive being blasted from the surface of a planet, travel through interstellar space on…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
804-Tracie's Solo
After months of training Tracie came full circle during her first solo 3 night observing run on the 60 inch telescope as she hosted groups of visitors as the observer instead of the tour guide.
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
291E-309-Tiny Atira
Atira, named for the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the Morning and Evening Star orbits the Sun inside of our path. Atira, the first of this type of asteroid, was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth A…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
803-Monster NEO
Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid traveling through the constellation of Auriga.Fortunately …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
290E-306-Egg Rock
Egg rock's chemical composition and visual appearance is so different from other native Mars rocks that scientists have concluded that it is a meteorite which came from the molten core of an ancient …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
802-Bok Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Draco with the Steward Observatory Bok 90 inch telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona when he discovered a faint…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
289E-305-Murky
It was murky cloudy night on Mt. Lemmon where I was trying to find Earth approaching objects with the Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope. At about 1AM another hole in the clouds opened and I could…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
801-Jacqui's PHA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when she spotted and then reported a bright moving point of…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
288E-304-Close One
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny had no way of knowing that the fast moving point of light that she had just discovered would create such a stir. Rose sent in her discovery and followup o…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago