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304E-323-Big Splash
To discover what would happen if an asteroid were to strike a large body of water, Dr. Galen Gisler led a team of scientists who used high performanc…
1 year, 5 months ago
816-David's Close Approaching Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ when h…
1 year, 5 months ago
303E-322-Dust Stories
Collect your own beautiful micro-meteorite sample.
It is estimated that several hundred thousand pounds of left over particles from the formation of …
1 year, 5 months ago
815-RADAR Observes Binary PHA
RADAR is very powerful tool since it can precisely measure an asteroid’s position and velocity as well as in some cases yield information about its s…
1 year, 5 months ago
302E-321-Dangereous Comet
Protection against a comet strike is worth considering. Every year, if we are lucky, several comets can come close enough for the Sun to warm and us …
1 year, 6 months ago
814-Threat of Solar Storms
Solar storms on our home planet occur when bursts of visible, ultraviolet and other photons hit our atmosphere and/or streams of energetic particles …
1 year, 6 months ago
301E-320-WOW What a Ride
It's a good thing this one will miss Earth.
Riding the surface of the asteroid that my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski recently discove…
1 year, 6 months ago
813-RADAR Observations of Close Approacher
Astronomers measure an asteroid’s position on the sky using a two dimensional system similar to the latitude and longitude coordinates we obtain wit…
1 year, 6 months ago
300E-319-Lost and Found
When asteroid hunters follow an object in the night sky for a few hours or a couple of days they are only able to observe a snippet or tracklet of th…
1 year, 6 months ago
812-The Benu Files I
A recent scientific paper characterizes the 123 grams of the regolith or surface material from the asteroid Bennu which NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft …
1 year, 6 months ago