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289E-305-Murky
It was murky cloudy night on Mt. Lemmon where I was trying to find Earth approaching objects with the Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope. At about…
1 year, 9 months ago
801-Jacqui's PHA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when she …
1 year, 9 months ago
288E-304-Close One
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny had no way of knowing that the fast moving point of light that she had just discovered would create such…
1 year, 9 months ago
800-Telescope Reborn
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to ca…
1 year, 9 months ago
287E-302-Sensing A Comet
More than 400 years ago Galileo Galilei expanded human vision using a telescope to view the cosmos. Since then humans have extended their senses to v…
1 year, 9 months ago
799-Nature's Gateways
The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only a …
1 year, 9 months ago
286E-301-Visitors From Afar
A pair of comets visiting our neighborhood are discovered in a matter of 4 days.
One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is having a comet named…
1 year, 9 months ago
798-Destination Enceladus
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus poten…
1 year, 9 months ago
285E-299-Sporadic Geysers
Using a small telescope or a set of binoculars you can see Europa for yourself as a small moving point of light circling the giant planet Jupiter. Mo…
1 year, 9 months ago
797-Recoveries
It is essential that asteroid hunters keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids to make sure that their orbits haven’t changed as they encounter …
1 year, 10 months ago