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294E-312-200 Yards Of Trouble
Dangerous Asteroids Are Still Out There Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a rapidly moving point of light in the night…
1 year, 7 months ago
806-Distant PHA
It is hard to obtain time on the 8m Gemini South Observatory telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope with its twin 8m mi…
1 year, 7 months ago
293E-311-Bright and Bald
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered 2015 TC25 as a rapidly moving point of light in the night sky. Followup observations using dat…
1 year, 8 months ago
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 …
1 year, 8 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…
1 year, 8 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 visitor…
1 year, 8 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 as…
1 year, 8 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 travelin…
1 year, 8 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 meteor…
1 year, 8 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 telescop…
1 year, 8 months ago