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618-Tremendous Find
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmo…
5 years, 4 months ago
106E-118-A Skyscraper Sized Asteroid to Pay A Visit
In the distant future, an asteroid, with the diameter of the height of the One Worldwide Plaza skyscraper building in New York City, will likely make…
5 years, 5 months ago
617-One to Track
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh…
5 years, 5 months ago
105E-117-A Football field Sized Asteroid Comes Near
I was observing with the Catalina Sky Survey, NASA funded, University of Arizona, 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon when a bright fast moving point of …
5 years, 5 months ago
616-100 Million Year Old Crater
In western Australia, rock samples and maps of the local geology obtained while exploring for gold show evidence of a 3 mile diameter meteor crater w…
5 years, 5 months ago
104E-116-Three Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Discovered In A Single Night
In less than three and one half hours, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Rose Matheny, discovered three Potentially Hazardous Asteroids with the NASA…
5 years, 5 months ago
615-Solar Storm Forecasts
A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participants i…
5 years, 5 months ago
103E-115-Ballistic Capture
Spacecraft destined for Mars have so far used the Hohmann transfer to achieve an orbit about the red planet. This approach requires the launch from …
5 years, 5 months ago
614-Rare Atira
The Atira class of Earth approaching asteroids are ones whose orbit is entirely within that of the Earth's path about the Sun. Less than 3 dozen of t…
5 years, 5 months ago
102E-114-Roses First Asteroid
Rose Matheny's third solo night of asteroid hunting, using the University of Arizona Schmidt telescope, on Mt. Bigelow, was one of the longest of the…
5 years, 5 months ago