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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, 9 months ago
266E-278-Nope
This is the story of the big one that got away. It illustrates the problem that there are a number of possible orbits which may fit a short arc of …
2 years, 9 months ago
778-Two Comets
Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discover…
2 years, 9 months ago
265E-277-Old Girl
Imagine a telescope old enough for Senior Citizen discounts, which has traveled between mountains, and started life with a metal mirror measuring one…
2 years, 9 months ago
777-Psyche Bound
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characterize …
2 years, 10 months ago
264E-276-Big 3
During a 6 night observing run with the 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered three new Po…
2 years, 10 months ago
776-Naming Asteroids and Comets
Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it recei…
2 years, 10 months ago
263E-275-No Place Like Home
Robotic spacecraft from Earth have been traveling around the solar system for decades. What they have found is that there may be a few places on whic…
2 years, 10 months ago
775-3 Close Approaches
During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries , …
2 years, 10 months ago
262E-274-New Horizons Continues
The NASA New Horizons spacecraft obtained intriguing images and data during it's trip through the Pluto system which will keep planetary scientists b…
2 years, 10 months ago