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526-Tiny Visitor
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.
7 years ago
14E-25-Fireballs
Occasionally one observes a meteor brighter than the Planet Venus which is called a fireball. Some of them can be bright enough to be seen in the day…
7 years ago
525-Collision
The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with a…
7 years ago
13E-24-Jupiter Friend or Foe
The Earth is our home. It provides us with air, food, and water. The Sun powers all life. The role of Jupiter is less clear. Jupiter puts some object…
7 years ago
12E-22-Asteroid 2013 TV 135
Asteroid 2013 TV135 is a potentially hazardous asteroid which at first appeared to be on a collision course with planet Earth. Subsequent observation…
7 years ago
524-Home Wrecker
The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in the…
7 years, 1 month ago
11E-20-A Serendipitous Supernova in M82
Many stars, galaxies, and other objects seem to be the same year after year giving us the idea that things are static out there. Every once in a whil…
7 years, 1 month ago
523-One Thousand
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a sin…
7 years, 1 month ago
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10E-19-An Asteroid with a Comet Orbit [2013JD4]
The Centaur type asteroid, 2013 JD4, is an interesting object. It takes 41.5 years to orbit the Sun on a path that takes it as close to Earth as we a…
7 years, 1 month ago
522-Comets Africano
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are cha…
7 years, 1 month ago