222E-234-Salty and Cold
There is increasing evidence that Jupiter's moon Europa, Saturn's moon Enceladus, and other bodies in our solar system have oceans of salty liquid water in contact with warm rock layers. We know that ...
21 Feb 20232min
732-Comet Lemmon(520)
Comets Travel Between Stars. An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way. Comet Lemmon will continue on a hyperbolic path into deep space. In 2043 it will be further ...
17 Feb 20232min
221E-233-Tiny Visitor
Asteroids are part of our environment.An SUV sized space rock has spent eons traveling through the silent vacuum of space. In the past 50 years, without humans being aware of its existence, it has mad...
14 Feb 20232min
731-Greg's Comet(519)
The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.
10 Feb 20232min
220E-232-Dangerous Aten
Aten asteroids pose a threat as well as an economic opportunity for humans.
7 Feb 20232min
730-Busy Night(518)
On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking through the night sky. The most interesting one could b...
3 Feb 20232min
219E-231-Hot Hand
Every year asteroid hunters discover about a hundred objects which are larger than 450 feet in diameter and come closer than 20 times the Moon's distance from us. We call these potentially hazardous a...
31 Jan 20232min
729-Close Again(517)
As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to suggest where to find pieces of one of them on the gr...
27 Jan 20232min
