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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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
425-Greg's Comet
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest of…
8 years, 8 months ago
424-Long Winter Nights
Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to views …
8 years, 8 months ago
423-Silent ET
The hypothesis that Oumuamua, the interstellar space rock, is an alien probe is pretty farfetched, however, how it came to have it's current shape is…
8 years, 8 months ago
422-Almost Dangerous
A large asteroid barely missies being classified by NASA as potentially hazardous. It may be a good candidate for asteroid miners.
8 years, 8 months ago
421-New Aten
Aten asteroids can make close approaches to Earth. They are difficult to discover because they spend most of their time inside our orbit with their …
8 years, 8 months ago
420-Dry Sands
Intriguing features which change with the Martian seasons mimic flows of liquid water on the Earth's surface.
8 years, 9 months ago