741-Africano(529)
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona. Observers with sma...
21 Huhti 20232min
230E-242-Spray Paint
A gentle method of causing an asteroid to miss planet Earth.Will spray paint save the world?Recently, NASA scientists using the giant RADAR telescope in Puerto Rico measured changes in the orbit of th...
18 Huhti 20232min
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth
14 Huhti 20232min
229E-241-Could Be Twins
A pair of possibly related comets pass unusually close to Earth.It is hard to have a personal feel for the microgravity of a comet since it is only a few ten thousandths of the pull of gravity we expe...
11 Huhti 20232min
739-Comet Groller(527)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first comet. After the Sun bakes out all of the frozen gas...
7 Huhti 20232min
228E-240-Why
What motivates asteroid hunters?Large dangerous asteroids are still out there to find.
4 Huhti 20232min
738-Tiny Visitor(526)
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.
31 Maalis 20232min
227E-239-Martian Lakes
We may be able to learn about the possibilities of life on Mars by studying land forms on the Tibetan Plateau here on Earth.
28 Maalis 20232min
