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393E-431-Tough Space Rocks
Most small asteroids are likely to be rubble piles of small rocks and dust loosely held together by their weak force of gravity while others may be m…
2 months, 1 week ago
903-Eclipse of the Moon Observing
My team the Catalina Sky Survey has pioneered searching for asteroids coming from the direction of the dark side of the moon.
2 months, 1 week ago
392E-430-Deportee
The beautiful star cluster the Pleiades in the constellation of Tauris is about 100 million years old making it one of the youngest objects that you …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
902-Lighting Up The Night
A start up company Reflect Orbital is proposing to launch 50,000 satellite mirrors by 2035 to illuminate solar panels on Earth all night long. This w…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
391E-428-Phaethon
The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon (FAY-eh-thon) does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet. Further it a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
901-Rubin and Incoming Asteroids
However, according to a recent research project, the Rubin Observatory will discover but not give an adequate warning time for objects destined to hi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
390E-427-Meteor Whispers
Often observers report hearing a percussive sound, like a sonic boom from an aircraft, minutes after viewing a bright meteor fireball. In addition, i…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
900-Earth Life from Mars
Some of the 635,000 impact craters found on Mars are the result of such violent impacts that pieces of Mars are ejected, travel around the solar syst…
3 months ago
389E-426-Rose Rules Again
389E-426-Rose Rules Again Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny discovered 8 new Earth approaching object candidates on a single nigh…
3 months ago
899-Hitch Hiking an Asteroid to Mars
Asteroids could provide a solution for the serious problem of how to protect astronauts from harmful solar and cosmic radiation during long duration …
3 months, 1 week ago