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292E-310-Ethics and Mars
Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration?
It is unlikely that any living organism could survive being blasted from the surface…
2 years, 1 month ago
804-Tracie's Solo
After months of training Tracie came full circle during her first solo 3 night observing run on the 60 inch telescope as she hosted groups of visitor…
2 years, 1 month ago
291E-309-Tiny Atira
Atira, named for the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the Morning and Evening Star orbits the Sun inside of our path. Atira, the first of this type of as…
2 years, 1 month ago
803-Monster NEO
Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travelin…
2 years, 1 month ago
290E-306-Egg Rock
Egg rock's chemical composition and visual appearance is so different from other native Mars rocks that scientists have concluded that it is a meteor…
2 years, 2 months ago
802-Bok Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Draco with the Steward Observatory Bok 90 inch telescop…
2 years, 2 months ago
289E-305-Murky
It was murky cloudy night on Mt. Lemmon where I was trying to find Earth approaching objects with the Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope. At about…
2 years, 2 months ago
801-Jacqui's PHA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when she …
2 years, 2 months ago
288E-304-Close One
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny had no way of knowing that the fast moving point of light that she had just discovered would create such…
2 years, 2 months ago
800-Telescope Reborn
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to ca…
2 years, 2 months ago