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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, 7 months 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, 7 months ago
526-Tiny Visitor
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.
7 years, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 months 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago