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763-Hogan's Big Rock
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when h…
3 years, 1 month ago
252E-264-Tough Guy
A tough rocky asteroid makes close approaches to the Sun.
3 years, 1 month ago
762-Kacper's PHA
An object like 2023 MN5 impacts Earth once every 90,000 years or so creating a crater 5 miles in diameter an 1800 feet deep in sedimentary rock. 50 m…
3 years, 1 month ago
251E-263-Catching Shadows
Students and teachers are doing real science by measuring the shadows cast by distant objects in our solar system.
For years humans knew Pluto, the fi…
3 years, 1 month ago
761-Allesandra's Duo
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through t…
3 years, 1 month ago
250E-262-Shooting Star's Daddy
The source of the Geminid Meteor shower each December is a strange little asteroid.
3 years, 1 month ago
760-Discover an Asteroid
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunting…
3 years, 2 months ago
249E-261-Cool Star Homes
Recently Dr. Michael Gillon of the University of Liege in Belgium and a team of astronomers hypothesized since that approximately 2/3 of the stars in…
3 years, 2 months ago
759-Number 7
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at the…
3 years, 2 months ago
248E-260-Gliding to Space
About 20 years ago Dr. Elizabeth Austin began to investigate Polar Vortex winds during the long winter nights near the poles. One of its components, …
3 years, 2 months ago