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586-Northern PHA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was observing in the constellation of Ursae Major with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when…
5 years, 10 months ago
74E-86-A Close Flyby
Recently a semi-trailer trailer truck sized asteroid passed only 20,800 miles above the Earth's surface. It reached its closest distance to us about …
5 years, 10 months ago
585-Mini Moon II
My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne were asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo with our 60 inch telescope whe…
5 years, 10 months ago
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 …
5 years, 11 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 throu…
5 years, 11 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…
5 years, 11 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 Observator…
5 years, 11 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…
5 years, 11 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 p…
5 years, 11 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 re…
5 years, 11 months ago