Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
163E-175-One 4 Ukraine
Currently the majority of the Earth Approaching objects are found by my team, the Catalina Sky Survey or the Pan STARRs group in Hawaii. Both employ large telescopes, very expensive electronic camera…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
674-Asteroid Homestead(446)
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a trip into low Earth orbit. A few hundred miles above the Earth's surface th…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
162E-174-Fascinating Europa
You can spot Europa with almost any small telescope as a moving point of light orbiting the planet Jupiter just like Galileo Galilei did 400 years ago. Of the 4 moons which you will see Europa is the…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
673-Christmas Comet(437)
On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard a Christmas present in the form of …
Published on 4 years ago
161E-173-An Earth Like Planet
Since the dawn of our race, it is likely that humans have looked into the night sky and wondered if they are alone in the Universe on a unique planet. The NASA Kepler spacecraft has discovered more t…
Published on 4 years ago
672-Meteor Whispers(427)
Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors produce simultaneous light and sound. If you are lucky …
Published on 4 years ago
160E-172-Number 1602
The one thousand six hundred and second potentially hazardous asteroid was discovered by the Pan-STARRS group in Hawaii. Followup observations were made by telescopes in Hawaii, France, Australia, I…
Published on 4 years ago
671-Long Winter Nights(424)
Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to views of millions of stars, gas clouds, and galaxies whi…
Published on 4 years ago
159E-171-Planet's Airglow
At the few remaining natural night sky viewing locations on Earth the horizon has a faint glow in every direction. Near the magnetic poles, this night glow appears to join with the relatively bright…
Published on 4 years ago
670-Laser Surfing(364)
When we find a planet which appears to have the chemical signs of living organisms in its atmosphere, the desire to take a close up look at it will be hard to contain. Laser propelled ultra light spa…
Published on 4 years ago