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510-Fourth Closest
Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a Toyota RAV4 sized space rock, now named 2018 UA, streaking t…
7 years, 10 months ago
509-Close
Until recently the discovery of very close approaching asteroids was rare, however, due to improvements in telescopes, cameras, and computers asteroi…
7 years, 10 months ago
508-Quiet Sun
Don't count on the decrease in solar activity to save you from human produced global warming, however something potentially important to you is happe…
7 years, 11 months ago
507-Eric's Night
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bige…
7 years, 11 months ago
506-Large PHA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bige…
7 years, 11 months ago
505-What A Night
To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my Cat…
7 years, 11 months ago
504-Vulcan
In the fictional Star Trek series, Vulcan, Spock's home planet was imagined to orbit the A component of the triple star system 40 Eridani [Eri-dani ]…
7 years, 11 months ago
503-Fuls III
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered his third comet, Comet C/2018 R4 (Fuls). It is now on its way back into deep space. G…
7 years, 11 months ago
502-Pair of PHAs
Asteroid Hunters keep careful track of nearly 2,000 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids [PHAs] to make sure that they are no threat to humanity. The rece…
7 years, 11 months ago
501-Carson's Night
A small space rock is spotted 4 days before it came very close to the Earth and our Moon.
7 years, 11 months ago