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264E-276-Big 3
During a 6 night observing run with the 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered three new Po…
2 years, 2 months ago
776-Naming Asteroids and Comets
Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it recei…
2 years, 2 months ago
263E-275-No Place Like Home
Robotic spacecraft from Earth have been traveling around the solar system for decades. What they have found is that there may be a few places on whic…
2 years, 3 months ago
775-3 Close Approaches
During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries , …
2 years, 3 months ago
262E-274-New Horizons Continues
The NASA New Horizons spacecraft obtained intriguing images and data during it's trip through the Pluto system which will keep planetary scientists b…
2 years, 3 months ago
774-Loss and Gain
The Catalina Sky Survey searchs the sky as rapidly as possible in search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet. Th…
2 years, 3 months ago
261E-273-Hunt for Planet9
Evidence continues to mount that there is an unseen body, Planet 9, orbiting far from our Sun. Ideas of where to look for it are being guided by it's…
2 years, 3 months ago
773- Discovery and Recovery
New observations linked with discovery observations 10 years earlier provide a significant improvement in the precision of our knowledge of 2013 TG6’…
2 years, 3 months ago
772-M31-Our Neighbor's Surprise
Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty’s image of our neighboring galaxy, M31, in Andromeda won the 10,000 British pound Astronomer Phot…
2 years, 3 months ago
260E-272-Big Eye
On a mountain top in the foothills of the Andes in northern Chile a new kind telescope, the LSST, is under construction. It's unique design allows it…
2 years, 3 months ago