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626-Lunar Impactors
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation of Pisces with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, AZ when…
5 years, 1 month ago
114E-126-Ready Yourself For Alien Life
Carl Sagan said that "The Universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space". It is hard to look into the sky on …
5 years, 1 month ago
625-Record Year
In 2020 the asteroid hunting community discovered 2,946 Earth approaching space rocks orbiting our Sun. My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, led the pa…
5 years, 1 month ago
113E-125-NASA RADAR Finds Asteroid Moon
Asteroid 2004 BL86 was discovered more than 10 years ago by the LINEAR program in New Mexico.Until recently, we knew asteroid 2004 BL86 only as a fai…
5 years, 1 month ago
624-In Coming
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a moving…
5 years, 1 month ago
112E-124-Great Shefford Observatory
On the first night an Earth approaching asteroid candidate is discovered, one is lucky to obtain observations for a few hours along its path in the s…
5 years, 2 months ago
623-Arecibo
The National Science Foundation has announced that it will close and decommission the giant RADAR telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico…
5 years, 2 months ago
111E-123-A New Discovery Not
I was observing with the NASA funded, Catalina Sky Survey, 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, when I found an interesting moving point of light in the …
5 years, 2 months ago
622-Lonely Vigil
On some nights an asteroid hunter searches for Earth approaching objects near the ecliptic plane where the planets and most of the asteroids are loca…
5 years, 2 months ago
110E-122-This Comet Will Never Return
Unlike Halley's [h AE - l ee ] comet which returns to our neighborhood once about every 76 years, Comet C2013 US10/Catalina will pass this way once …
5 years, 2 months ago