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73E-85-Obscuring The Cosmos
Imagine a world where people are never able to see the Milky Way or a meteor streaking like a falling star in the night sky. For most of the people living in the Earth's cities this has already happ…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
584-Pop Up Comets
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving through the night sky. The small possibility that such …
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
72E-84-Interplanetary Travelers-Martian Meteorites
Recently, Dr. Stephanie C. Werner of the University of Oslo in Norway and her colleagues have discovered the source of some of the Martian meteorites found on Earth. It is the 34 mile diameter Mojave…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
583-A Woman and Pluto
Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observatory She used the motions of Uranus and Neptune to p…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
71E-83-Two Space Rocks Come Close To Planet Earth In A Week
The NASA funded, University of Arizona, Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, AZ was used to discover two close approaching space rocks on the same night.Rest assured that the asteroid hunting community …
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
582-Stealthy Asteroid
Asteroids which approach Earth from inside of our orbit about the Sun are often difficult to discover and may represent a unique threat to our home planet. My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
70E-82-Interplanetary Travelers-Antartic Meteorites
In the cold deserts of Antarctica nature collects meteorites as ice sheets carrying space rocks are pushed up against mountains. High speed winds remove the ice leaving dozens to hundreds of meteori…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
581-Planet Hunting
The hunt is on for Earth like planets which are close enough for us to study in detail. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for short, is observing nearby stars looking for planet…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
69E-81-Views From The Shores Of The Cosmic Ocean
Before artificial lighting many people knew the night sky the way humans of today know their favorite TV channels. There are still places where you can view the naturally appearing sky. There is a …
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
580-Kacper's Debut
On his first night of solo observing with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos discovered 8 new Earth approaching objects. Theoretically Kac…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago