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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…
4 years 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 …
4 years 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month ago
690-Peek A Boo Asteroid(468)
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.
4 years, 1 month ago