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86E-98-Small Objects Visiting Our Neighborhood
Every month we discover small asteroids which come closer than the Moon. There are probably 20 million asteroids in this size range which come near …
5 years, 9 months ago
597-Aging Satellites
If we don't place some new space weather observing satellites into orbit it is possible that you will wake up one day to no electricity, no cell phon…
5 years, 9 months ago
85E-97-A Large Strange One
Recently my, University of Arizona, Catalina Sky Survey, teammate, Jess Johnson, was searching for Earth Approaching asteroids when he discovered a f…
5 years, 9 months ago
596-Next Solar Cycle
If the current trend in 11 year solar cycles for the past 50 years continues, we can expect lower than average solar activity and the Earth will cont…
5 years, 9 months ago
84E-96-Target Asteroids
Many scientists have been started on their career paths by an interest in astronomy and the mysteries of space. As technology has developed it has b…
5 years, 10 months ago
595-Monster Comet
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona …
5 years, 10 months ago
83E-95-Phantom Meteor Shower
Comet Blanpain was discovered in 1819 and was described as having a small confused nucleus. It was lost a few months after its discovery and pronoun…
5 years, 10 months ago
594-Earth Grazer
Asteroid hunters have discovered that the Earth encounters many tiny asteroids as it zips around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour. Recently my Catali…
5 years, 10 months ago
82E-94-You Are Close To Outer Space
How often do you traveled 5, 10, or more miles on a shopping trip? If instead of traveling on the Earth's surface you were to travel 6 miles straigh…
5 years, 10 months ago
