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230E-242-Spray Paint
A gentle method of causing an asteroid to miss planet Earth.
Will spray paint save the world?
Recently, NASA scientists using the giant RADAR telescope…
2 years, 11 months ago
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth
2 years, 11 months ago
229E-241-Could Be Twins
A pair of possibly related comets pass unusually close to Earth.
It is hard to have a personal feel for the microgravity of a comet since it is only a…
2 years, 11 months ago
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 c…
2 years, 11 months ago
228E-240-Why
What motivates asteroid hunters?
Large dangerous asteroids are still out there to find.
2 years, 11 months ago
738-Tiny Visitor(526)
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.
2 years, 11 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.
2 years, 11 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 requestin…
2 years, 11 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 Surve…
2 years, 11 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…
3 years ago