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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.
4 years, 11 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 S…
4 years, 11 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 …
4 years, 11 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 catalog…
4 years, 11 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 anima…
4 years, 11 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 huma…
4 years, 11 months ago
128E-140-A Weird Orbit
The vast majority of asteroids orbiting the Sun do so on a path that is pretty much
in the same plane as the planets. There is a lot of empty space …
4 years, 11 months ago
639-Earth Approachers
During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged 3…
5 years ago
127E-139-Next Step to Mars
A trip to our Moon is one of the great human adventures of all time. However,
such a voyage is but a small step of about 30 Earth diameters into the …
5 years ago
