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77E-89-Witnessing An Asteroid Impact
Recently I discovered a small asteroid with the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon. This space rock is about 200 feet in…
6 years, 5 months ago
588-Encounter With Saturn
From 1663 to 2011, seven comets had close encounters with Jupiter and two had close encounters with Saturn. In May of 1936, Comet P/2020 F1 Leonard …
6 years, 5 months ago
76E-88-Space Rocks
Asteroid 2008 TC3 is the only asteroid which was observed to be hurtling between planets, flying through our atmosphere, and pieces of it found to be…
6 years, 5 months ago
587-Quiet Sun
Images of the quiet Sun during a solar minimum make it look like a relatively static peaceful place. Occasionally during solar minimum, at the Cosmic…
6 years, 5 months ago
75E-87-MOM Reaches Mars
India's Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM has made the 10 month journey from Earth to Mars. India joins the United States, Russia, and the European Space …
6 years, 5 months ago
586-Northern PHA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was observing in the constellation of Ursae Major with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when…
6 years, 6 months ago
74E-86-A Close Flyby
Recently a semi-trailer trailer truck sized asteroid passed only 20,800 miles above the Earth's surface. It reached its closest distance to us about …
6 years, 6 months ago
585-Mini Moon II
My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne were asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo with our 60 inch telescope whe…
6 years, 6 months ago
73E-85-Obscuring The Cosmos
Imagine a world where people are never able to see the Milky Way or a meteor streaking like a falling star in the night sky. For most of the people …
6 years, 6 months ago
584-Pop Up Comets
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving throu…
6 years, 6 months ago