Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
484-Aliens
Most Astronomers find it hard to believe that given perhaps a trillion planets in the Milky Way alone that our Earth is the only one which hosts livi…
7 years, 11 months ago
483-Double Trouble
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble object…
8 years ago
482-Botswana Fragment
An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help hum…
8 years ago
481-Fireball
On July 8, 2018 a beautiful fireball Meteor was seen streaking across the sky in evening twilight. So far the American Meteor Society has received …
8 years ago
480-Large Visitor
Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. T…
8 years ago
479-Comet Catalina
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the end…
8 years ago
478-Comet Leonard III
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving thro…
8 years ago
477-Hannes' Discoveries
Recently, my newest Catalina Sky Survey Teammate, Hannes Groeller, had an excellent training night, working with Greg Leonard, on our 60 inch telesco…
8 years ago
476-Lost Comet
On July 1, 1770 Comet Lexell passed about 6 times the moon's distance from planet Earth, the closest a comet has ever come to humanity. After that it…
8 years ago
475-Lonely Fragment
A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment a…
8 years ago