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780-Scary Space Rock
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was being filmed and interviewed by the NASA 360 crew at our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he discovered a scary space rock moving through…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
267E-279-Hottest
The warming that is happening is having a variety of consequences. In the American midwest and northeast extreme heat, heavy rain storms, and flooding will impact agriculture, forestry, infrastructur…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?
A research project whoes goal is to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it would not enter the Earth’s atmosphere as a single object perhaps saving…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
266E-278-Nope
This is the story of the big one that got away. It illustrates the problem that there are a number of possible orbits which may fit a short arc of an object in the night sky. There may be scores of…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
778-Two Comets
Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discovered two comets on consecutive nights. They have ver…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
265E-277-Old Girl
Imagine a telescope old enough for Senior Citizen discounts, which has traveled between mountains, and started life with a metal mirror measuring one thing at time being equipped with a camera with 1…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
777-Psyche Bound
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characterize an unknown weird world.
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
264E-276-Big 3
During a 6 night observing run with the 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered three new Potentially Hazardous Asteroids. They range in size …
Published on 2 years ago
776-Naming Asteroids and Comets
Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it receives enough followup observations it will carry you…
Published on 2 years ago
263E-275-No Place Like Home
Robotic spacecraft from Earth have been traveling around the solar system for decades. What they have found is that there may be a few places on which the toughest terrestrial life forms could exist …
Published on 2 years ago