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276E-290-Screaming Aten
I knew from the short regularly space streaks on the four images I had just obtained with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch on Mount Lemmon, Arizona,…
2 years, 1 month ago
788-!00 Years of Wilderness
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natural…
2 years, 1 month ago
275E-289-Strange Comet
C/2016 Q4 (Kowalski) is my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski's 14th comet discovery. It orbits the Sun once every 68 years on a cold path…
2 years, 1 month ago
787-Far Out
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.
2 years, 1 month ago
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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago