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546-Snoopy
49 years after the Lunar Landing Module "Snoopy" was abandoned by Apollo 10 Astronauts, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls may have spotted …
6 years, 7 months ago
34E-46-How Far Is Forever
When you look out in space you are also looking back in time. Objects in space are older than they appear to us; the Moon more than a second , Mars…
6 years, 7 months ago
545 Celestial Congestion
Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the zod…
6 years, 8 months ago
33E-45-A World Full Of Holes
It may surprise you to know that there are more than 180 confirmed impact craters on our planet. It is likely that many more have been erased by th…
6 years, 8 months ago
544 Missing
Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diameter.…
6 years, 8 months ago
32E-44-A Unique Metal World; Asteroid Psyche
The asteroid Psyche is named for a Greek mythological figure. It was discovered in 1852 as a moving point of light in the night sky. This small wor…
6 years, 8 months ago
543 Asteroid Zoo
In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dange…
6 years, 8 months ago
31E-43-First Earth-Size Planet In 'Habitable Zone
The Kepler Space Craft has found tiny regular dips in light from a star which is about 500 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus. The dips …
6 years, 8 months ago
542 Toughest Asteroid
An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface to…
6 years, 8 months ago
30E-42-Astronauts Reveal Sobering Data on Asteroid Impacts
On Earth Day Astronauts Dr. Ed Lu, Tom Jones, and Bill Anders announced that between 2000 and 2013, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization Network…
6 years, 8 months ago