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536-Ultima Thule
Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped obje…
6 years, 10 months ago
24E-36-Earth and Moon as Evening Stars
A human with normal vision standing on Mars would see the Earth and our Moon as a double evening star. An observer on Mars would also see the distanc…
6 years, 10 months ago
535-Alone Or Not
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breathe…
6 years, 10 months ago
23E-35-An Asteroid With A Ring
Programs 31-60
Travelers in The Night
Programs
Contents
1 31-A Gentle Breakup Of An Asteroid
2 32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid with a Moon
3 33-A B…
6 years, 10 months ago
534-Followups
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they mi…
6 years, 10 months ago
22E-34-Number 5000
The 5000th Earth approaching asteroid discovered by the University of Arizona's NASA funded Catalina Sky Survey is approximately 3 times the size of…
6 years, 10 months ago
533-100 Moons
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood.
6 years, 10 months ago
21E-33-A Busy Month In The Earth's Neighborhood
For us who look for Earth approaching objects, March of 2014 was a busy month. Six asteroids which pass closer than our Moon were discovered and trac…
6 years, 10 months ago
532-Teddy's Debut
On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth Appro…
6 years, 11 months ago
20E-32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid with a Moon
It appears that Hektor and its moon were created by a collision between two icy asteroids early in the 4.5 billion year history of our solar system w…
6 years, 11 months ago