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133E-145-Near Earth and Moon
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Rose Matheny discovered a tiny asteroid that passed 115,000 miles from Earth and 104,000 miles from our Moon. Rose's discovery demonstrates the fact that the…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
644-Tracking Meteoriods
A team of astronomers find that as many as 14 comets which came to less than 4 times the Moon's distance from us as long as 4,000 years ago are detectable as meteor showers in the present era. These…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
132E-144-One Of A Million
Recently I was observing with the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon when the computer identified a faint fast moving object in the night sky. Not being sure it was real …
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
643-Space Vehicles
New Rocket engines will revolutionize space travel to the Moon and Mars.
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
131E-143-Busy Little One
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rik Hill discovered an asteroid about the size of a luxury sedan which cruises about the inner solar system.
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
642-Vesta Fragment
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting the Sun for 22 million years or so. In June of 2018 my …
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
130E-142-Planetary Defense
Recently people from all over the world met in Italy to discuss ways that humans can prepare for the unlikely, but not impossible, situation that an object is on an impact trajectory with planet Eart…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
641-Backyard Astronomy
In March and April every year amateur astronomers, around the world, in Messier Marathons, attempt to view all of 110 objects in the Messier catalogue in a single night. In a more leisurely approach…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
129E-141-Sailing The Cosmos
The first human use of the wind to power boats most likely occurred in about 3,000 BC. This was a major improvement in travel over walking and animal drawn carts. Three or four hundred years from no…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
640-Rocks or Rockets
Asteroid hunters have discovered a curious object. It appears likely to be either a rock ejected from the Moon or a piece of space junk from a human designed mission to the Moon. Observations whic…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago