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808-Global Auroras on Mars
When the Earth enters a stream of high speed protons and other charged particles in the solar wind or our home planet is impacted by a solar coronal …
2 years, 2 months ago
295E-313-Martian Motherlode
Water for Martian Colonists
Martian colonists will need to create mini environments with air to breathe and water to drink. Energy will be required t…
2 years, 2 months ago
807-Moon Orbit Crossers
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon
2 years, 2 months ago
294E-312-200 Yards Of Trouble
Dangerous Asteroids Are Still Out There Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a rapidly moving point of light in the night…
2 years, 3 months ago
806-Distant PHA
It is hard to obtain time on the 8m Gemini South Observatory telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope with its twin 8m mi…
2 years, 3 months ago
293E-311-Bright and Bald
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered 2015 TC25 as a rapidly moving point of light in the night sky. Followup observations using dat…
2 years, 3 months ago
805-Very Close Miss
During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters observed 23 asteroids which came closer to us than our Moon. Six of them passed closer to the Earth’s …
2 years, 3 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago