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739-Comet Groller(527)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first comet. After the Sun bakes out all of the frozen ga…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
228E-240-Why
What motivates asteroid hunters?
Large dangerous asteroids are still out there to find.
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
738-Tiny Visitor(526)
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
227E-239-Martian Lakes
We may be able to learn about the possibilities of life on Mars by studying land forms on the Tibetan Plateau here on Earth.
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
737-Collision(525)
I was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Steve Larson sent me an email requesting that I obtain some images of the asteroid 6478 G…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
226E-238-Now Three
The Catalina Sky Survey now operates three telescopes, 24 nights per month, in the Catalina mountains north of Tucson, Arizona.
The Catalina Sky Survey began with the University of Arizona's 30 inch S…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
736-Home Wrecker(524)
The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona.
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
225E-237-Lost
The asteroid named for Mildred Shapley Matthews was lost in the solar system for 75 years.
In 1916 the 60 inch Hale telescope on Mt. Wilson, California was the largest telescope in the world.
Seth Nic…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
735-One Thousand(523)
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a single year. They are an interesting part of our envi…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
224E-236-Enceladus's Ocean
Pound for pound Saturn's moon Enceladus is the brightest object in our solar system. It is so shiny that it reflects most of the sunlight that strikes it. Since Enceladus absorbs little sunlight it's…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago