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311E-330-Comet Johnson
Comet C2/2015 V2 Johnson was discovered by my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jess Johnson on November 3, 2015. It travels on a hyperbolic path around t…
1 year, 5 months ago
823 Jacqui's Impactor
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon Ari…
1 year, 5 months ago
310E-329-Near Neighbor
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was using the new hundred million pixel camera on our team's Schmidt telescope located on Mt. Bigelow, Ar…
1 year, 5 months ago
822-Dark Matter and Alien Beings
In a recent paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, a philosopher Dr. Vojin Rakić (voyin rack itch) reviews some 50 or so propo…
1 year, 5 months ago
309E-328-The Heat is On
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has published an extensive data based review, analysis, and summary of the Earth's Climate. 2016 …
1 year, 6 months ago
821-Dinosaur Killing Asteroid
Scientific results are consistent with the hypothesis that the dinosaur killing, K-T layer forming Chicxulub impactor came from well beyond Jupiter w…
1 year, 6 months ago
308E-327-Suddenly Bright
An example that a relatively large space rock can approach the Earth suddenly started with what appeared as a bright star moving across the images th…
1 year, 6 months ago
820-4015 Wilson-Harrington (1979 VA)
4015 Wilson-Harrington (1979 VA) was discovered as a comet by Wilson and Harrington in 1949, lost to astronomers for 30 years, and rediscovered in 19…
1 year, 6 months ago
307E-326-Asteroids 2016
2016 was another record year for asteroid hunters during which we discovered 1,894 new Earth approaching objects. My team, the NASA funded, Catalina …
1 year, 6 months ago
819-Binary Asteroids
Binary asteroids are important since they enable astronomers to study how objects interact in space and in some cases the data can even yield their s…
1 year, 6 months ago