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53E-65-Your Shield
The NEOShield project is an international group of scientists and engineers from space faring nations. They are doing the detailed analysis and planning required to provide an effective means of deal…
Published on 6 years ago
564-Heavy Traffic
In the space of less than 13 hours four small space rocks zipped through the Earth-Moon neighborhood. All of them were discovered by my team, the NASA funded, Catalina Sky Survey, before they made cl…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
52E-64-Asteroid Brings Life's Ingredients to Earth
A unique opportunity occurred in January of 2000, when a large meteoroid exploded and rained down pieces onto the frozen surface of Tagish Lake in British Columbia.Dr. Christopher Herd of the Univers…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
563-Pre-Autumnal Harvest
On a clear but windy night, near the fall equinox, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was able to discover and verify 23 new Earth approaching objects as they passed through our celestial n…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
51E-63-Rocks From Space Bearing Vitamin B3
Research indicates that Vitamin B3 can form on ice crystals in deep space. From there asteroids and comets can bring it to Earth. How rocks from space play into life as we know it remains a mystery …
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
562-Monster Space Rock
An object the size of this huge space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere every 180,000 years with an energy of 5,800 megatons of TNT. The only place to survive would be in an underground bunker.
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
50E-62-From Big Dark Asteroid to Beautiful Bright Comet
About 26 weeks after its discovery, astronomers in Australia were the first to notice that an asteroid was beginning to have a fuzzy appearance. Six weeks later, Damian Peach, in England, took a stu…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
561-Hannes Is Back
During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fall season of observing with our Schmidt Telescope on …
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
49E-61-There Are Still Big Ones Out There
Asteroid Hunters have discovered almost 900 Earth Approaching Asteroids whose impact could trigger global climate change. Fortunately none of them are on a collision course with planet Earth. Statist…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
560-Wet Nights
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is so high that it is impossible to open the telescope's…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago