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271E-284-Dark Trails
A faint shooting star or meteor streaking across the sky is produced when a tiny bit of rock or dust enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up some …
2 years, 2 months ago
783--Kacper's Centaur
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.
2 years, 2 months ago
270E-283-Micro-Astronomy
The history of our spot in the Universe is written in the composition of meteorites and other samples of materials we have obtained from space. Even …
2 years, 3 months ago
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass with…
2 years, 3 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 months ago