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168E-180-An Eternal One
Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski found a faint moving point of light in the night sky. After his discovery observations were posted on …
4 years, 4 months ago
679-Hammer(453)
When Asteroid Hunters find a relatively large asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth, the challenge is to change its path to make it miss o…
4 years, 4 months ago
167E-179-Planets,Billiards,&Alchemy
"I do not know how I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, in n…
4 years, 4 months ago
678-Greg's Comet(425)
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest of…
4 years, 4 months ago
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, 4 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, 4 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago