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296E-314-Our Number
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered, 2016 WJ1, a relatively large asteroid which can come close but will not hit the Ear…
1 year, 9 months ago
808-Global Auroras on Mars
When the Earth enters a stream of high speed protons and other charged particles in the solar wind or our home planet is impacted by a solar coronal …
1 year, 9 months ago
295E-313-Martian Motherlode
Water for Martian Colonists
Martian colonists will need to create mini environments with air to breathe and water to drink. Energy will be required t…
1 year, 9 months ago
807-Moon Orbit Crossers
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon
1 year, 9 months ago
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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 months ago