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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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago
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9E-18-The FIrst Pre-Impact Discovery [2008TC3]
2008 TC3 is the first of the two of small asteroids which astronomers have been able to find and track into our atmosphere. Samples of these impactin…
7 years, 4 months ago
521-Lunar Space Rock
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Growler discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejected …
7 years, 4 months ago
8E-17-2013 US10 From Asteroid to Comet to Deep Space
An object is discovered that first appeared to be a huge near Earth asteroid. Subsequent observations show it to be a comet making a single trip thro…
7 years, 4 months ago