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91E-103-Small Asteroids In Earth-like Orbits
Four days after it made its closest approach to Earth, I found a 10 foot diameter asteroid with the NASA funded University of Arizona 60 inch telesco…
5 years, 8 months ago
602-Solar Flares
Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Eart…
5 years, 8 months ago
90E-102-Little Asteroid On An Inside Track
2014 US7 is called an Aten [Ah tin] type of asteroid. The first of its type was discovered by Dr. Eleanor Key Francis "Glo" Helin in 1976. She was an…
5 years, 8 months ago
601-Phaethon's Child
Phaethon (Faith on) is a strange, 4 mile diameter, blueish asteroid. It travels on an orbit which comes so close to the Sun that its exterior is heat…
5 years, 8 months ago
600-Big and Close
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizon…
5 years, 9 months ago
88E-100-Where Extension Cords Can't Reach
Marie Curie's discovery of radioactivity started humans on a path which so far has skirted annihilation and has led to cures for cancer and the explo…
5 years, 9 months ago
599-Path to Mars
The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020. …
5 years, 9 months ago
87E-99-Peppered By Space Rocks
It appears that the human population is at more at risk from smaller rather than larger Earth impacting asteroids.During the past 20 years more than …
5 years, 9 months ago
598-Illusive Asteroids
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was observing in the constellation of Boötes with our 60 telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he dis…
5 years, 9 months ago