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699-Last One(486)
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break from observing provides the opportunity for asteroi…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
187E-199-Space Boomerang
A space boomerang meets its fate in a collision with the Earth about 60 miles off of the coast of Sri Lanka producing a bright, but harmless light show in the noon sky.
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
698-Aliens?(484)
Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts living organisms. It is both exciting and terrifying t…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
186E-198-Asteroid Water Wagons
Our Moon is the nearest and most likely place for humans to colonize in the near future. It has a hostile environment where air and liquid water as we know them on Earth are not to be found. In the p…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
697-Double Trouble(697)
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble object is heading for us remains a mystery.
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
185E-197-Rik's 2 Homers
During his last official observing run before retiring, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Rik Hill knocked two out of the park. On successive nights he discovered two new potentially hazardous asteroi…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
696-Botswana Fragment(482)
An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help humans to prepare for and defend against a much large…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
184E-196-Dark,Bright,and Beautiful
The Great Galaxy in Andromeda or M31 as it is also known is one of the furtherest objects that can be seen with the unaided human eye. It is about two and a half million light years away. More than a…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
695-A Large Visitor(480)
Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. Thus my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard wa…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
183E-195-Flat Earth Society Reincarnation
In spite of the shape of the Earth's shadow on the Moon, sailing ships disappearing below the horizon, satellite photographs, orbiting objects, and a mountain of other information about the size and …
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago