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368E-400-Roving Venus
Venus and Earth are similar in size, composition, density, and mass. Unfortunately, our sister planet Venus is an example of a place where green hous…
8 months ago
880-Carrington Anticipated
Just before noon on September 1st of 1859 Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson were making sketches of clusters of sunspots when they were nearly b…
8 months ago
367E-399-Moons of Florence
Dr Lance Benner of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory headed up a team of scientists who used the 70 meter antenna at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Commu…
8 months, 1 week ago
879-Lurking Asteroid
The Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundation’s Blanco 4-meter telescope on Cerro Tololo in Chile is taking near Sun twilight images to s…
8 months, 1 week ago
366E-398-Mars Rocks
At about 2AM on July 18, 2011 several people in near Tata, Morocco saw a bright fireball which was described by one of them to be initially yellow, t…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
878-Comet Fragment
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carvajal was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Eridanus with the 90 inch, University of Arizona’s Bok t…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
365E-397-Spotting Meteors
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of tiny…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
877-Close Grazer
On a busy night of asteroid hunting with the 90 inch, University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Bok telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona, my Catalina …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
364E-396-Jupiter
Jupiter has been observed throughout human history and is so bright that you can even spot it under the artificial light dome of one of our cities. E…
9 months ago
876-Neighborhood Traffic - 9:28:25, 6.28 PM
In a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters tracked 24 space rocks which came closer than our Moon. My team the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky S…
9 months ago