725-Mtn Ops(513)
My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. Bottom line is that Mtn Ops does whatever it takes to...
30 Joulu 20222min
214E-226-Cosmic Campground
The Cosmic Campground is one of the last places where one can experience the natural night sky in the lower 48.
27 Joulu 20222min
724-Aten(512)
Aten Asteroids are stealthy space rocks which can be dim and hard to detect since for most of their path about the Sun their illuminated side is facing away from us.
23 Joulu 20222min
213E-225-Greg Scores
My Catalina Sky Survey team mate Greg Leonard finds an interesting potentially hazardous asteroid.Since asteroid hunter's main concern are the large space rocks which we don't know about, my team the ...
20 Joulu 20222min
723-Very Close One(510)
Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a Toyota RAV4 sized space rock, now named 2018 UA, streaking through the constellation of Pegasus at 8.8 miles/se...
16 Joulu 20222min
212E-224-Aten Ahead
Aten asteroids spend most of their time inside the Earth's orbit, come close to us, travel at speeds our rockets can match, and may be an economical source of raw materials for space exploration.
13 Joulu 20222min
722-Close(509)
Until recently the discovery of very close approaching asteroids was rare, however, due to improvements in telescopes, cameras, and computers asteroid hunters are now finding a significant number of t...
9 Joulu 20222min
211E-223-Back Home
A mysterious piece of space hardware comes back to Earth.
6 Joulu 20222min
