601-Phaethon's Child
Phaethon (Faith on) is a strange, 4 mile diameter, blueish asteroid. It travels on an orbit which comes so close to the Sun that its exterior is heated to 1,500 F. When you go out to view the Geminids...
14 Elo 20202min
89E-101-Navigating The Earth Moon Dance
11 Elo 20202min
600-Big and Close
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he discovered a Potentially Hazardous Astero...
7 Elo 20202min
88E-100-Where Extension Cords Can't Reach
Marie Curie's discovery of radioactivity started humans on a path which so far has skirted annihilation and has led to cures for cancer and the exploration of the distant regions of our solar system.I...
4 Elo 20202min
599-Path to Mars
The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020. Recently a group of scientists point out that by ha...
31 Heinä 20202min
87E-99-Peppered By Space Rocks
It appears that the human population is at more at risk from smaller rather than larger Earth impacting asteroids.During the past 20 years more than 550 small asteroids ranging in size from 3 to 60 fe...
28 Heinä 20202min
598-Illusive Asteroids
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was observing in the constellation of Boötes with our 60 telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he discovered a potentially hazardous asteroid which had ...
24 Heinä 20202min
86E-98-Small Objects Visiting Our Neighborhood
Every month we discover small asteroids which come closer than the Moon. There are probably 20 million asteroids in this size range which come near the Earth. A few of these may eventually impact ou...
21 Heinä 20202min
