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916-Past Glory
When accurately recorded historical observations do not agree with what we what we see today it is often very rewarding to find out why. In modern te…
1 month ago
405E-446-Asteroid Homestead
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orbit.…
1 month, 1 week ago
915-Raining Comets
The comets we observe generally start out as icy dirty snowballs of frozen gases like water and frozen carbon dioxide in the Oort cloud. If recent sc…
1 month, 1 week ago
404E-445-Not So Secret
A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.
1 month, 2 weeks ago
914-Deep Synoptic Array
Looking into the sky at night with radio eyes you would not see the points of starlight forming the constellations instead you would see a very brigh…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
403E-444-Near Comets
Although no comet nucleus impact on the Earth has been conclusively identified, there is some evidence that suggests the 1908 Tunguska event in Russi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
913-Moon Impact
Bill Gray is an astronomer who specializes in tracking objects in space which come near the Earth. In addition to natural objects like asteroids and …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
402E-443-Unsung Heroes
In 2017 observers in 50 countries at 440 different observatories made nearly 19 million observations of asteroids and comets which enable scientists …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
912-Boston Bolide
Recently on a Saturday afternoon a loud double booming sound startled residents of Massachusetts and Rhode Island as a large bolide meteor exploded h…
2 months ago
401E-442-Brian's Debut
During the only 3 clears hours of his first night solo as an asteroid hunter, my new Catalina Sky Survey teammate Brian Africano discovered two new E…
2 months ago