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255E-267-Hiding from ET
Should humans hide from ET or should ET hide from us?
2 years, 5 months ago
765-Bright-Fireball
Bright fireball meteors sometimes rain pieces of themselves onto the ground for meteorite hunters to discover.
2 years, 5 months ago
254E-266-Colliding Planets
Collisions between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets have produced the place where we live and breathe.Today scientists are replacing myt…
2 years, 5 months ago
764-Green-Airglow
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space weathe…
2 years, 5 months ago
253E-265-Dancing with Earth
The Moon is the Earth's long time dancing partner. This unequal pair revolve about a teeter totter type balance point which in turn orbits the Sun ev…
2 years, 5 months ago
763-Hogan's Big Rock
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when h…
2 years, 5 months ago
252E-264-Tough Guy
A tough rocky asteroid makes close approaches to the Sun.
2 years, 6 months ago
762-Kacper's PHA
An object like 2023 MN5 impacts Earth once every 90,000 years or so creating a crater 5 miles in diameter an 1800 feet deep in sedimentary rock. 50 m…
2 years, 6 months ago
251E-263-Catching Shadows
Students and teachers are doing real science by measuring the shadows cast by distant objects in our solar system.
For years humans knew Pluto, the fi…
2 years, 6 months ago
761-Allesandra's Duo
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through t…
2 years, 6 months ago