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148E-160-Alma Spots Juno
Juno was found by German astronomer Karl L. Harding in 1804 who noticed that to the human eye it appeared to be a star like moving point of light in the night sky. The light that Juno reflects sugge…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
659-Martian Debris(382)
Martian Trojan asteroids have stable orbits around the Sun, leading and trailing the red planet by 60 degrees, where the Sun's and Mars's gravity are balanced. The impact more than 4 billion years or…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
147E-159-Good News
Recently my NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered an approaching asteroid about the same size as the one whose high altitude disintegration injured nearly 1500 people in Che…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
658-Fireball II(418)
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space of only 10 hours. There are likely to be on the ord…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
146E-158-Know A Star
How would you like to know more about a particular star than anyone else on Earth?
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
657-Plant Companionship(407)
On Earth, human life is enabled by plants which provide us with calories, vitamins, fuel, medicines, and oxygen to breathe. In addition, recent scientific studies indicate that plant cultivation redu…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
145E-157-Kissing Frogs
An asteroid hunter literally has to sort through millions of objects to find an unknown Earth approaching asteroid.
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
656-Moons of Florence(399)
The largest asteroid to come near the Earth in 100 years has two moons.
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
144E-156-Close Ones
In the space of less than ten nights, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates discovered 8 new Earth approaching objects. One of them can pass closer to us than our communication satellites.
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
655-Finding Space Rocks(391)
Finding a meteorite that has traveled billions of miles through space to reach it's present location is exciting. It might even be worth real money.
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago