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566-October Fest
October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This dive…
6 years, 3 months ago
54E-66-Opportunity Celebrates 10 years on Mars
The Opportunity Rover has been joined by, a car sized robot, named Curiosity. So far it has found that ancient Mars could have supported living micr…
6 years, 3 months ago
565-Ancient Crater
In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp t…
6 years, 3 months ago
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 plann…
6 years, 3 months 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 NAS…
6 years, 3 months 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 Br…
6 years, 3 months 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 approach…
6 years, 4 months 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 spa…
6 years, 4 months 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 …
6 years, 4 months 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…
6 years, 4 months ago