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36E-48-Large Asteroids Still Appear Suddenly Without Warning
Asteroid 2014 JO25 is truly an amazing object. It orbits the Sun, every 2.94 years, on a very elongated path that goes closer to the Sun than Mercury…
6 years, 9 months ago
547-Impact Mars
A given piece of ground on Mars receives several times more space rock impacts than a similar sized area on Earth. Perhaps, in the future the Martian…
6 years, 9 months ago
35E-47-Earth Approaching Space Rocks Collected Over 6 Nights
During a recent 6 night observing run with the NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, I found 29 Earth Approaching Asteroid…
6 years, 9 months ago
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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 months ago