296E-314-Our Number
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered, 2016 WJ1, a relatively large asteroid which can come close but will not hit the Earth. The extremely unlikely scenario of an impactor ...
6 Aug 20242min
808-Global Auroras on Mars
When the Earth enters a stream of high speed protons and other charged particles in the solar wind or our home planet is impacted by a solar coronal mass ejection the Earth’s strong magnetic field act...
2 Aug 20242min
295E-313-Martian Motherlode
Water for Martian Colonists Martian colonists will need to create mini environments with air to breathe and water to drink. Energy will be required to keep warm, power the settlement, and enable vehic...
30 Jul 20242min
807-Moon Orbit Crossers
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon
26 Jul 20242min
294E-312-200 Yards Of Trouble
Dangerous Asteroids Are Still Out There Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a rapidly moving point of light in the night sky. Subsequent observations made by telescopes in...
23 Jul 20242min
806-Distant PHA
It is hard to obtain time on the 8m Gemini South Observatory telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope with its twin 8m mirrors on Mt. Graham, Arizona since they are among t...
19 Jul 20242min
293E-311-Bright and Bald
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered 2015 TC25 as a rapidly moving point of light in the night sky. Followup observations using data from four different telescopes has enabled a team...
16 Jul 20242min
805-Very Close Miss
During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters observed 23 asteroids which came closer to us than our Moon. Six of them passed closer to the Earth’s surface than 22,236 miles which is the distance to ...
12 Jul 20242min
