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435-Number 31
Asteroid Hunter, Alex Gibbs, discovered a comet on one of it's rare visits to our neighborhood.
8 years, 3 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 50…
8 years, 3 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 …
8 years, 3 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 E…
8 years, 3 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, s…
8 years, 3 months ago
430-Deportee
An object visits our solar system from the beautiful Pleiades star cluster.
8 years, 4 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.
8 years, 4 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 …
8 years, 4 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 produ…
8 years, 4 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.
8 years, 4 months ago