693-Comet Leonard III(478)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving through the constellation of Pisces. Eventually when it...
20 Touko 20222min
181E-193-Survivor
Thirty six hours before my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rik Hill discovered it, a space rock about size of a Toyota Prius passed about 14,000 miles above the Earth's surface. When Rik first spotted it...
17 Touko 20222min
692-Lonely Fragment(475)
A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment and look for members of its family as it passes near...
13 Touko 20222min
180E-192-WISE Alive
When the NASA WISE spacecraft ran out of frozen hydrogen, its detectors warmed up, and it was no longer able to conduct its primary mission. It was placed in a hibernation mode and left to orbit the E...
10 Touko 20222min
691-Earth-Venus Shuttle(474)
A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one of these planets producing a spectacular light show.
6 Touko 20222min
179E-191-Two Odd Fellows
Two quite different Earth approaching asteroids were discovered in a clear hole in the sky between storms.
1 Touko 20222min
690-Peek A Boo Asteroid(468)
A strange asteroid plays hide and seek with frustrated astronomers.
29 Huhti 20222min
178E-190-EX Most Dangerous
For a week or so after its discovery by the 3.5 meter Space Surveillance Telescope, 2015 PU228 was thought to be the asteroid most likely to collide with Earth in this century. Calculations based on l...
26 Huhti 20222min
