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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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
299E-318-Caves of Mars
Presently the surface of Mars is very dry and any liquid water that reaches it quickly boils away since the martian atmospheric pressure is what you …
1 year, 8 months ago
811-Martian Meteroite Hunters
Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an exciting…
1 year, 8 months ago
298E-317-Psyche Water
The asteroid Psyche may be one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in the solar system. It is a small world about 116 miles in diameter and i…
1 year, 8 months ago
810-Humans Can
The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST for short is a superb scientific instrument which is revolutionizing our understanding of the structure of the…
1 year, 8 months ago
297E-316-Weird Centaur
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was surprised to find a moving point of light on some his images which was more than 50 times bright…
1 year, 8 months ago
809- How Close Can An Asteroid Approach
The Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance or Earth MOID for short is the closest an asteroid can come to our home planet on it's current orbit.
1 year, 8 months ago