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633-Dress Rehearsal
The situation that asteroid hunters both train for and dread is the discovery of a large space rock on a collision course with planet Earth. Recently…
5 years, 1 month ago
121E-133-2 Close Approaches
Slightly more than a day apart, my NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey teammates Richard Kowalski and Carson Fuls found two small asteroids. Both of the…
5 years, 1 month ago
632-Couch Potato
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski is the first person in our group and perhaps the first person in the world to discover a potentially…
5 years, 1 month ago
120E-132-Kowalski's Forever Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski has an instinct for discovering interesting objects. Recently he spotted a fuzzy looking moving fain…
5 years, 1 month ago
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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago