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166E-178-Monster Telescope
Imagine a monster telescope that can collect 37 million times more light than can enter your eye. A huge telescope with this capability, planned by …
4 years, 3 months ago
677-30 Years of Fireballs
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send i…
4 years, 3 months ago
165E-177-Flying Peanut
For 16 years, since its discovery at Lowell Observatory, humans knew 1999 JD6 only as a strange, spinning, moving point of light in the night sky. It…
4 years, 3 months ago
676-Cloud 7(449)
To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 hou…
4 years, 3 months ago
164E-176-Weird Life
Our everyday world is in the thin web of life that surrounds our planet. We see living organisms made possible by solar energy, water, air, and nutri…
4 years, 3 months ago
675-Nuking An Asteroid(447)
Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If we …
4 years, 3 months ago
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 …
4 years, 3 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…
4 years, 4 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 ag…
4 years, 4 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 teammat…
4 years, 4 months ago