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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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago
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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago