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92E-104-Jupiter Trojan Confusion
Humans know of approximately half million main belt asteroids orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. We have also found approximately 11,000 Ear…
6 years, 2 months ago
603-Discovering Alien Life
Our star is only one among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way galaxy which itself is only one of a hundred billion or more galaxies in the known u…
6 years, 2 months ago
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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 2 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…
6 years, 3 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. …
6 years, 3 months ago