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322E-341-Ballooning to Space
To travel to the edge of space you can strap yourself into a capsule and ride atop of a carefully controlled explosion or you can enter a crew capsul…
1 year, 6 months ago
834-Dark Comets
From our vantage point on planet Earth asteroids appear as moving points of light which strictly follow the law of gravity as they orbit the Sun. On …
1 year, 6 months ago
321E-340-Carson's Comet
My team was excited when our Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his first comet, C/2017 D1 (Fuls), when it was traveling between the…
1 year, 6 months ago
833-Will Asteroid Mining Payoff?
In the journal Planetary and Space Science Dr. Kevin Cannon and his two coauthors analyze the potential of asteroid mining as a source of metals for …
1 year, 7 months ago
320E-339-No Need To Smile
The company Planet's, Dove satellites may not be spot you looking up, smiling, and waving when you are in the great outdoors but they could detect a …
1 year, 7 months ago
832-Backyard Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin has discovered 13 comets using our team’s professional telescopes. Recently he discovered a 14th comet a…
1 year, 7 months ago
319E-338-Psyche Bound
When the material came together to form our home planet, gravity was strong enough to pull the heavy materials like iron to the center, giving our pl…
1 year, 7 months ago
831-Finding Dangerous Comets
Meteor shower data can provide an additional warning time for a potentially dangerous comet of from 1 to 12 years giving humans extra time to determi…
1 year, 7 months ago
318E-337-Lucy
Jupiter's Trojan asteroids lead and follow the giant planet around the Sun occupying stable locations where Jupiter and the Sun's gravity balance eac…
1 year, 7 months ago
830-Imaging Alien Worlds
Through out history humans have dreamed about living creatures on planets orbiting distant stars. As technology has improved and our robotic missions…
1 year, 7 months ago