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729-Close Again(517)
As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to suggest where to find pieces of one of them on the g…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
218E-230-Close or Not
In 2013 my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Steve Larson discovered a space rock streaking through the night sky. For the next 3 days this object was observed by telescopes in California, England, Chile,…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
728-Space Weather(516)
Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide spread power blackouts disabling everything that plugs …
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
217E-229-Close Duo
On consecutive nights my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski discovered two very close approaching asteroids. One of Richard's discoveries, 2016 BY14 must be made out of pretty tough stuff …
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
727-Dust Moons(515)
In a dance of unequal partners the Earth and Moon orbit a common center of gravity which itself travels about the Sun. Leading and trailing the moon's twisted path by 60 degrees, are the L4 and L5 La…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
216E-228-Alien Contact
Humans are searching the Universe to discover life outside of our Planet.
You could wake up any morning to the news that humans have found life beyond our planet. It could be fossils of ancient life o…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
726-Close Space Rocks(514)
Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet in diameter. It entered the Earth's atmosphere and ex…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
215E-227-Planet 9
Astronomers are searching the solar system for new planets. Calculations based on the orbits of the distant objects out near Pluto suggest the existence of a 10 Earth mass planet twenty times farther…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
725-Mtn Ops(513)
My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. Bottom line is that Mtn Ops does whatever it takes t…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
214E-226-Cosmic Campground
The Cosmic Campground is one of the last places where one can experience the natural night sky in the lower 48.
Published on 3 years ago