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866-Interstellar Visitor
Amazingly, nature occasionally sends an interstellar traveler through our solar system for us to observe. The third such object that astronomers have…
9 months, 1 week ago
353E-381-Peaceful Star
The Sun is our very own well behaved star. It rises and sets in our sky every day and powers and makes possible all life forms on planet Earth. A new…
9 months, 1 week ago
865-New Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
On a a short June night my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was observing with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona in the constella…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
352E-379-Flying Mud Balls
75% of asteroid hunter's discoveries are called C type asteroids. They are dark, have a high abundance of carbon, consist of clay and silicate rocks,…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
864-Lunar Debris
Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the Earth in 2032, has a 4% chance of hitting the moon, and most likely will pass within 900 miles of the lunar surfac…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
351E-376-Active Asteroids
When it was first spotted by astronomers at Space Watch on Kitt Peak, 2008 GO98 appeared to be one of many outer main belt asteroids moving through t…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
863-Space Elevator
In a recent study Dr. Lynnane George and her co-authors investigate Space Elevator technology to remove materials from Ceres and deliver them to orbi…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
350E-374-Brute
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski discovered a 0.4 mile diameter asteroid with the Catalina Sky Survey Schmidt telescope on M…
10 months ago
862-New Planet 9 Search
Recently, using data from the Japanese infrared telescope AKARI, Dr. Amos Y.A. Chen and his collaborators published a paper in the Publications of t…
10 months ago
349E-372-Trappist-1 Planets
The Trappist-1 planetary system located about 40 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius consists of a small red dwarf star and 7 Earth siz…
10 months, 1 week ago