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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…
8 years, 1 month 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 …
8 years, 1 month 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 orb…
8 years, 1 month 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…
8 years, 1 month 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.
8 years, 1 month ago
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, 1 month 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 hou…
8 years, 1 month ago
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, 1 month 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 h…
8 years, 2 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 orbi…
8 years, 2 months ago