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631-Greg's Comet
My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object with a…
5 years ago
119E-131-Deafening Silence
More than 50 years of searching for signals from other civilizations in the Universe has produced a deafening silence. There is no evidence that alie…
5 years ago
630-Largest Asteroid
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Hercules when he spotted a fast moving point of light strea…
5 years ago
118E-130-Things That Dim In The Night
Objects in the Universe that brighten rapidly grab our attention. One of the most spectacular examples is Kepler's supernova. In 1604 this star was b…
5 years ago
629-Loneliest Asteroid
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Canes Venatici with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ…
5 years ago
117E-129-A 3 City Block Sized Asteroid
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammates Carson Fuls and Jess Johnson discovered an asteroid which comes close enough and is large enough be be clas…
5 years ago
628-Close Approaches
In 2020 my team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 171 asteroids which can occasionally come closer to us than our Moon. In fact 21 of them, averagin…
5 years, 1 month ago
116E-128-Buzzed By An Asteroid
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammates Carson Fuls and Jess Johnson discovered a rapidly moving point of light in the sky. It was subsequently obs…
5 years, 1 month ago
627-Toughest Asteroids
In 2020, my team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 14 extremely tough asteroids which regularly travel closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury. T…
5 years, 1 month ago
115E-127-Tied For Third
The appearance of a naked eye comet is one of natures most impressive displays. Humans have regarded these suddenly appearing objects as everything f…
5 years, 1 month ago