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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 hum…
3 years, 9 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 tw…
3 years, 9 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. Th…
3 years, 9 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…
3 years, 9 months ago
694-Comet Catalina(479)
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the end …
3 years, 9 months ago
182E-194-Star Wanderer
From the dawn of history, humans have longed to wander amongst the stars. Now we know that comets are able to make such a voyage giving us paths to f…
3 years, 9 months ago
693-Comet Leonard III(478)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving thro…
3 years, 10 months ago
181E-193-Survivor
Thirty six hours before my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rik Hill discovered it, a space rock about size of a Toyota Prius passed about 14,000 miles a…
3 years, 10 months ago
692-Lonely Fragment(475)
A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment a…
3 years, 10 months ago
180E-192-WISE Alive
When the NASA WISE spacecraft ran out of frozen hydrogen, its detectors warmed up, and it was no longer able to conduct its primary mission. It was p…
3 years, 10 months ago