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634-Meteor Goes Splat
On 28 February 2021 at 9:54PM a large slow moving fireball meteor was observed over England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. The Wichcombe met…
5 years, 7 months ago
122E-134-Recycling Spacecraft
In the early days of space exploration when a flight component failed the mission was over. In recent history, there have been a few times when astr…
5 years, 7 months ago
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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 8 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, 8 months ago