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219E-231-Hot Hand
Every year asteroid hunters discover about a hundred objects which are larger than 450 feet in diameter and come closer than 20 times the Moon's dist…
3 years, 4 months ago
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 su…
3 years, 4 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 obs…
3 years, 5 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 sprea…
3 years, 5 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,…
3 years, 5 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'…
3 years, 5 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…
3 years, 5 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 …
3 years, 5 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 existe…
3 years, 5 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. Bo…
3 years, 5 months ago