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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, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago
176E-188-Deep Listen
There is a mind blowing potential for life in the Universe. Humanity's ignorance of any life forms beyond Earth has prompted the Breakthrough Prize …
4 years, 2 months ago
687-Returnee(465)
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.
4 years, 2 months ago
175E-187-Ganymede's Layers
You can spot Ganymede orbiting the planet Jupiter with any backyard telescope. It is the largest of the four bright moons of Jupiter discovered by Ga…
4 years, 2 months ago
686-Big Atira(464)
The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the Su…
4 years, 2 months ago
174E-186-Breaks Happen
Hunting asteroids by poking around in clear holes between cloud layers can be very tiresome, however, sometimes it has its rewards. A break in the m…
4 years, 2 months ago
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enough…
4 years, 3 months ago