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383E-419-ET's Cigar
In 2012 as it crossed the orbit of Neptune heading towards the Sun a small space rock was 250 times fainter than can be detected by the Hubble Space …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
893-DarkSky Oregon
Artificial light at night also known as light pollution is degrading human safety and health as well as damaging the natural environment on which we …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
382E-418-Fireball II
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space of…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
892-140m-asteroids
Humans can mitigate the damage done by the impact of an asteroid given a sufficient lead time. In 1998, the US Congress mandated NASA to detect and t…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
381E-417-Red Dwarf Planets
Astronomers continue to be delighted when they discover an Earth sized planet. Scientists were thus very disappointed when the red dwarf star hosting…
5 months ago
891-2026-AA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Tracie Beuden was observing with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona in the constellation of Persus when sh…
5 months ago
380E-416-Odd Ball
The orbits of the planets are closely aligned with the extension of the Sun's equator into space and are contained within the flattened disk of mater…
5 months, 1 week ago
890-Comet 467P(Linear-Grauer)
Astronomers using the 8.1 m Gemini South Telescope in Chile were excited by the fact that 467P (LINEAR-Grauer)’s Centaur like orbit had been changed …
5 months, 1 week ago
379E-415-Well Done
Once every 1,435 days , a 780 foot diameter space rock that my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered makes an annihilation defying clos…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
889-Lick Observatory
In 1892 the world’s largest telescope, the Lick Observatory’s 36 inch refracting telescope made the news when E.E. Barnard discovered, Amalthea, the …
5 months, 2 weeks ago