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66E-78-Up Close And Personal With A Comet
From the dawn of recorded history, comets have been viewed as the bringers of everything from gloom and doom to water and life. In reality, comets a…
6 years, 2 months ago
577-Comet Fuls
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Leo when he spotted a faint fuzzy looking object with a tail…
6 years, 2 months ago
65E-77-Extremely Old World Could Harbor life
Radar beams that are reflected from your car as you travel down a highway reveal your speed and direction. In a similar way, scientists using a tel…
6 years, 2 months ago
576-Loneliest Asteroid
A recently discovered asteroid spends most of its time high above the plane of the solar system far from our Sun. Unknown asteroids on such a path wo…
6 years, 2 months ago
64E-76-Waking Up To No Satellites
What would your day be like if you woke up and there were no functioning artificial Earth satellites? All of us have become used to finding our way …
6 years, 2 months ago
575-Big, Dangerous, and Tough
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne, discovered a potentially dangerous and perhaps valuable asteroid with our 60 inch telescope on…
6 years, 2 months ago
63E-75-Will Space Aliens Discover Us By Our Pollution
When a distant planet passes in front of its star some of the star's radiation goes through the planet's atmosphere. The pattern of colors or wavele…
6 years, 2 months ago
574-Record Year
In 2019, asteroid hunters set a new record by discovering 2,433 Earth approaching objects including 85 which could potentially become a threat to pla…
6 years, 3 months ago
62E-74-Space Aliens Listening To Our Sun
Suppose that a space alien were so far from us that our Sun appears as a tiny point of light in it's night sky. What would the space alien receive if…
6 years, 3 months ago
573-Sweet Asteroid
Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances. …
6 years, 3 months ago