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56E-68-Hubble Finds Three Surprising Dry Exoplanets
Water is essential to life on our planet. Recently, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to study 3 planets orbiting stars similar to our Sun. As…
6 years, 4 months ago
567-Close Space Rock
Nine hours after it was discovered a tiny, 4 foot in diameter, space rock streaked less than 4,000 miles above southern Africa as it passed through t…
6 years, 4 months ago
55E-67-NASA Deep Space Network Turns 50
NASA's Deep Space Network is celebrating its 50th birthday. Australia, Spain, and California host its three sites. These facilities are spaced nearly…
6 years, 4 months ago
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, 4 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, 4 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago