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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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
691-Earth-Venus Shuttle(474)
A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one o…
4 years ago
179E-191-Two Odd Fellows
Two quite different Earth approaching asteroids were discovered in a clear hole in the sky between storms.
4 years ago
690-Peek A Boo Asteroid(468)
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.
4 years ago
178E-190-EX Most Dangerous
For a week or so after its discovery by the 3.5 meter Space Surveillance Telescope, 2015 PU228 was thought to be the asteroid most likely to collide …
4 years ago
689-Botswana Bound(471)
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course with…
4 years ago
177E-189-Thats 2
Gennadii Borisov has done it again. In a stretch of less than six weeks this talented observer and telescope maker discovered two interesting Earth a…
4 years ago
688-Martian Asteroid Hunters(470)
The life of an asteroid hunter on Mars will be interesting and exciting. The double planet, our Earth and Moon, in the Martian night sky will be an u…
4 years ago