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306E-325-Marrakech
A location 9,000 feet above sea level in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco is ideal for an asteroid hunter since the weather is often clear and the skie…
1 year, 6 months ago
818-Historical Near Earth Comets
Approximately once every 45 million years a long period comet strikes the Earth with catastrophic results. Astronomers have identified and calculate…
1 year, 6 months ago
305E-324-Newborn Planets
The ALMA radio telescope located in the Atacama desert of northern Chile is able to see the faint millimeter wave length glow emitted by gas molecule…
1 year, 6 months ago
817-Interstellar Travelers In The Night
As astronomers learned to measure the distance to the stars and how the laws of Physics works with rockets, it seemed that travel between the stars w…
1 year, 7 months ago
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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago