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455-17,000 To Go
So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more to be discovered. For this reason, NASA has designed…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
454-Comets And Asteroids
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the other hand, watching major meteor showers will allow you…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
453-HAMMER
Theoretically, If an asteroid on a collision course with our planet could be slowed sufficiently it could be made to pass behind our planet as it orbits the Sun. It is not as easy as we would like.
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
452-Small But Deadly
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard's discovery of, 2018 FO5, a three football field diameter asteroid that can come closer than our Moon is a reminder that we need to keep searching for the…
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
451-Going Far
Perhaps C/2018 F3 (Johnson) is an interstellar visiting Comet and is thus a sample of a place currently beyond our reach.
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
450-Saint Patrick's Day Comet
On Saint Patrick's Day I discovered a comet which I share with my wife Annie Grauer.
Published on 7 years, 7 months ago
449-Cloud 7
To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 hours, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowals…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
448-Two PHA's
The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
447-Nuking An Asteroid
Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth.
If we have decades warning, the potential impactor's arri…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
446-Asteroid Homestead
In the future one can envision a space mining family boarding a descendent of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle for a a trip into low Earth orbit. A few hundred miles above the Earth's surface t…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago