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435-Number 31
Asteroid Hunter, Alex Gibbs, discovered a comet on one of it's rare visits to our neighborhood.
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
434-Biggest Space Rock
The largest Earth approaching space rock, found by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2017, is 3,250 feet in diameter. One like it strikes the Earth every 500,000 years or so with devastating consequences
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
433-Tiniest Space Rock
Asteroid hunters have discovered a 4 foot 6 inch diameter, baby space rock, about 478,000 miles away in the constellation of Pisces traveling in our direction at 4.5 miles per second.
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
432-Close Space Rocks
In 2017, my team, the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 17 space rocks that can come closer than the communication satellites to the surface of planet Earth. Fortunately none of them will strike the Ear…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
431-Tough Space Rocks
Some very tough asteroids regularly pass closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury and may contain valuable materials such as phosphorus, antimony, silver, gold, and copper.
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
430-Deportee
An object visits our solar system from the beautiful Pleiades star cluster.
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
429-2017's Catch
In 2017 my team the Catalina Sky Survey led the world in the discovery of Earth approaching objects by identifying 987 of them as they whizzed by us.
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
428-Phaethon
The mysterious Earth approaching object Phaethon does not fit neatly into our definition of either an asteroid or a comet.During it's close approach to Earth in December of 2017 the Arecibo Observato…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
427-Meteor Whispers
Recent scientific studies have begun to shed light on the interesting mystery of how the small number of what we now call electrophonic meteors produce simultaneous light and sound. If you are lucky …
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
426-Rose Rules Again
Rose discovers 8 new interesting asteroids in a single night using the Catalina Sky Survey's Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona.
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago