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838-Webb-Asteroid-Discoveries
Using high powered graphics processing units, a team of 21 astronomers led by Dr. Artem Y. Burdanov of MIT used 93 hours of data from the James Webb …
1 year, 7 months ago
325E-344-Gnats
Near Earth Asteroids or NEAs which are accessible are those objects whose orbits bring them close to Earth at speeds which are reachable by our rocke…
1 year, 7 months ago
837-Weird Extraterrestrial Life
We will continue to search for life as we know it by studying the chemistry of the atmospheres of extraterrestrial planets and trying to detect signa…
1 year, 8 months ago
836-Jacqui's Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when she spotted a glowing …
1 year, 8 months ago
323E-342-That's Close
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered an asteroid, 2017 EA, which is so tiny that it could pass under a basketball hoop. It missed …
1 year, 8 months ago
835-Bok Impactor
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carvajal was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aries with the Steward Observatory 90 inch Bok telescope…
1 year, 8 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago