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375E-410-Extraterrestrial Whales
In an area which is about 1/400th of the entire sky, the NASA Kepler spacecraft has discovered 30 Earth like planets which are likely to have liquid …
1 month, 1 week ago
885-Dark Sky Network
Around the world those who value the natural night sky are evaluating the effects of light pollution. In addition to impairing astronomy and star gaz…
1 month, 1 week ago
374E-408-Earth's Pet Rock
On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Eart…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
884-Turkeys and Asteroids
Since in its early history the Earth’s surface was hot and lifeless it is likely that asteroids formed in the same era as Bennu delivered the raw mat…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
373E-407-Plant Companionship
On Earth, human life is enabled by plants which provide us with calories, vitamins, fuel, medicines, and oxygen to breathe. In addition, recent scien…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
883-Theia
In the distant past things in our solar system were very much more wild and violent than they are today. 4.5 billion years ago a Mars sized object ca…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
372E-406-Close Ones
In less than 24 hours, while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona , I discovered two 25 foot diameter sp…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
882-David’s Goliath PHA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the evening twilight with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon Arizona when he sp…
2 months ago
371E-405-Kiwi Nights
New Zealand's 4.5 million people are concentrated in three major population centers which to various degrees suffer from the modern plague of light p…
2 months ago
881-Dangerous Comets
It is possible the object creating the Tunguska event in Russia 1908 which knocked down 80 million trees over an area about twice the size of New Yor…
2 months, 1 week ago