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269E-281-Starlight Walking
We don't know much about our Ethiopian ancestor Lucy who walked the Earth some 3 million years ago, however, it is likely that she made her way aroun…
2 years, 1 month ago
781-Comet C.2023 V5 (Leonard)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona…
2 years, 1 month ago
268E-280-Ice Volcanos
Scientists have spotted icy plumes coming from below the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus but have yet to witness such events on Ceres. Even so the…
2 years, 1 month ago
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 wh…
2 years, 2 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 floodin…
2 years, 2 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 Ea…
2 years, 2 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 …
2 years, 2 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 discover…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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 …
2 years, 2 months ago