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274E-288-Coming Out Of Monsoon
In the southwest, the life giving monsoon rains occur in July and August, divide the observing year into two halves, and give asteroid hunters a chan…
2 years ago
786-Comet 31
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona.…
2 years ago
273E-286-Neighboring World
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have discovered a rocky Earth like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to ou…
2 years ago
785-Secret Asteroid Mission
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable near…
2 years ago
272E-285-Mars Impactors
In 2015 the Earth was struck by at least 43 meteoroids which created bright fireballs. Their arrival does not seem to be correlated with the position…
2 years ago
784-Josh's Two PHAs
So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search the …
2 years, 1 month ago
271E-284-Dark Trails
A faint shooting star or meteor streaking across the sky is produced when a tiny bit of rock or dust enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up some …
2 years, 1 month ago
783--Kacper's Centaur
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.
2 years, 1 month ago
270E-283-Micro-Astronomy
The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Even …
2 years, 1 month ago
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass with…
2 years, 1 month ago