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896-Sneaky But Potentially Dangerous
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he came across an unknown mo…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
385E-421-New Aten
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammates Carson Fuls and Greg Lenoard discovered an Aten asteroid which orbits the Sun once every 272 days and on a …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
895-Tracking Space Junk
According to NASA an average of one catalogued piece of space junk per day has come down to Earth over the past 50 years. Research is described which…
6 months ago
384E-420-Dry Sands
The NASA Curiosity Rover has shown us evidence of ancient rivers and bodies of liquid water on the martian surface. Given it's thin cold atmosphere, …
6 months ago
894-Discovery Night at the Schmidt
On a recent night my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carvajal found 4 Earth approaching space rocks with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope o…
6 months, 1 week ago
383E-419-ET's Cigar
In 2012 as it crossed the orbit of Neptune heading towards the Sun a small space rock was 250 times fainter than can be detected by the Hubble Space …
6 months, 1 week ago
893-DarkSky Oregon
Artificial light at night also known as light pollution is degrading human safety and health as well as damaging the natural environment on which we …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
382E-418-Fireball II
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space of…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
892-140m-asteroids
Humans can mitigate the damage done by the impact of an asteroid given a sufficient lead time. In 1998, the US Congress mandated NASA to detect and t…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
381E-417-Red Dwarf Planets
Astronomers continue to be delighted when they discover an Earth sized planet. Scientists were thus very disappointed when the red dwarf star hosting…
6 months, 3 weeks ago