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250E-262-Shooting Star's Daddy
The source of the Geminid Meteor shower each December is a strange little asteroid.
2 years, 6 months ago
760-Discover an Asteroid
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunting…
2 years, 6 months ago
249E-261-Cool Star Homes
Recently Dr. Michael Gillon of the University of Liege in Belgium and a team of astronomers hypothesized since that approximately 2/3 of the stars in…
2 years, 6 months ago
759-Number 7
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at the…
2 years, 6 months ago
248E-260-Gliding to Space
About 20 years ago Dr. Elizabeth Austin began to investigate Polar Vortex winds during the long winter nights near the poles. One of its components, …
2 years, 6 months ago
758-Weird Supernova
An extremely wide field of view camera, the Zwicky Transient Facility, operated by Caltech on Palomar Mountain in California is able to take images o…
2 years, 7 months ago
247E-259-Trans-Neptunian
During the course of a single night our telescopes can find more than 10,000 moving objects. Fortunately our software geniuses are able to sort throu…
2 years, 7 months ago
757-Alien Signals
Project Breakthrough Listen is spending $100 million over 10 years so that radio telescopes can search for signals which may indicate extraterrestria…
2 years, 7 months ago
246E-258-Odds of Aliens
Recently Dr. Adam Frank of the University of Rochester and Dr Woodruff Sullivan of the University of Washington published a paper in which they addre…
2 years, 7 months ago
756-Nice PHA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona …
2 years, 7 months ago