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452-Small But Deadly
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…

7 years, 11 months ago

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451-Going Far
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.

8 years ago

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450-Saint Patrick's Day Comet
450-Saint Patrick's Day Comet

On Saint Patrick's Day I discovered a comet which I share with my wife Annie Grauer.

8 years ago

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449-Cloud 7
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 hou…

8 years ago

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448-Two PHA's
448-Two PHA's

The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.

8 years ago

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447-Nuking An Asteroid
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 h…

8 years ago

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446-Asteroid Homestead
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 orbi…

8 years ago

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445-Not So Secret
445-Not So Secret

A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.

8 years ago

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444-Near Comets
444-Near Comets

Although no comet nucleus impact on the Earth has been conclusively identified, there is some evidence that suggests the 1908 Tunguska event in Russi…

8 years ago

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443-Unsung Heroes
443-Unsung Heroes

In 2017 observers in 50 countries at 440 different observatories made nearly 19 million observations of asteroids and comets which enable scientists …

8 years, 1 month ago

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