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382E-418-Fireball II
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space of…
1 month ago
892-140m-asteroids
Humans can mitigate the damage done by the impact of an asteroid given a sufficient lead time. In 1998, the US Congress mandated NASA to detect and t…
1 month, 1 week ago
381E-417-Red Dwarf Planets
Astronomers continue to be delighted when they discover an Earth sized planet. Scientists were thus very disappointed when the red dwarf star hosting…
1 month, 1 week ago
891-2026-AA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Tracie Beuden was observing with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona in the constellation of Persus when sh…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
380E-416-Odd Ball
The orbits of the planets are closely aligned with the extension of the Sun's equator into space and are contained within the flattened disk of mater…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
890-Comet 467P(Linear-Grauer)
Astronomers using the 8.1 m Gemini South Telescope in Chile were excited by the fact that 467P (LINEAR-Grauer)’s Centaur like orbit had been changed …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
379E-415-Well Done
Once every 1,435 days , a 780 foot diameter space rock that my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered makes an annihilation defying clos…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
889-Lick Observatory
In 1892 the world’s largest telescope, the Lick Observatory’s 36 inch refracting telescope made the news when E.E. Barnard discovered, Amalthea, the …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
378E-414-Enormous Visitor
Without additional data, the true nature of the rapidly northward moving point of light my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls had just discover…
2 months ago
888-Investigating the Mystery of How Life Formed
On Earth living things are everywhere from the deepest ocean depths to the highest mountain tops. On our home planet RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) is a comp…
2 months, 1 week ago