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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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months 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 …
6 years, 5 months 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 ar…
6 years, 6 months 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 …
6 years, 6 months ago
48E-60-A Close Visit With A Message
Eric Christensen was observing with the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey Telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he discovered a bright fast moving obje…
6 years, 6 months ago
559-Farming Mars
On Earth plants provide us with medicines, food to eat, and oxygen to breathe. In the future, in addition to providing treats like strawberries it tu…
6 years, 6 months ago
47E-59-Spotting Travelers In The Night
Travelers In The Night from outer space are closer than you may imagine. If you were to go straight up more than 4 miles you would need supplementar…
6 years, 6 months ago
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar en…
6 years, 6 months ago