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531-Alex's Catch
On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obser…
6 years, 11 months ago
19E-31-A Gentle Breakup Of An Asteroid
An asteroid spins up and comes apart. When the Earth runs into its trail we will be treated to a meteor shower.
6 years, 11 months ago
530-Cuban Meteorites
A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.
6 years, 11 months ago
18E-30-Asteroids On An Inside Track
Only 13 out of the more than 10,000 Earth approaching objects have their orbit completely within that of the Earth.
6 years, 11 months ago
529-Africano 4
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt te…
6 years, 11 months ago
17E-28-Finding An Asteroid for Astronauts
A prelude of a manned flyby of Venus and Mars could be a manned mission to an asteroid. The search for an appropriate asteroid continues.
6 years, 11 months ago
528-Asteroid Billiards
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth.
6 years, 11 months ago
16E-27-A Lucky Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th of 2029 will be a lucky day for the Human race when the asteroid passes very near the Earth.
7 years ago
527-Comet Groeller
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first …
7 years ago
15E-26-Binary Asteroids
Approximately 1 out of 5 large Near-Earth Asteroids are really double or triple systems of objects orbiting a common center of gravity. Such double t…
7 years ago