584-Pop Up Comets
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving through the night sky. The small possibility that such f...
17 Apr 20202min
72E-84-Interplanetary Travelers-Martian Meteorites
Recently, Dr. Stephanie C. Werner of the University of Oslo in Norway and her colleagues have discovered the source of some of the Martian meteorites found on Earth. It is the 34 mile diameter Mojave ...
14 Apr 20202min
583-A Woman and Pluto
Elizabeth William graduated from MIT in 1903 as one of the top students in physics and mathematics. As the head "human computer" at Lowell Observatory She used the motions of Uranus and Neptune to pr...
10 Apr 20202min
71E-83-Two Space Rocks Come Close To Planet Earth In A Week
The NASA funded, University of Arizona, Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, AZ was used to discover two close approaching space rocks on the same night.Rest assured that the asteroid hunting community w...
7 Apr 20202min
582-Stealthy Asteroid
Asteroids which approach Earth from inside of our orbit about the Sun are often difficult to discover and may represent a unique threat to our home planet. My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls ...
3 Apr 20202min
70E-82-Interplanetary Travelers-Antartic Meteorites
In the cold deserts of Antarctica nature collects meteorites as ice sheets carrying space rocks are pushed up against mountains. High speed winds remove the ice leaving dozens to hundreds of meteorit...
31 Mar 20202min
581-Planet Hunting
The hunt is on for Earth like planets which are close enough for us to study in detail. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for short, is observing nearby stars looking for planet ...
27 Mar 20202min
69E-81-Views From The Shores Of The Cosmic Ocean
Before artificial lighting many people knew the night sky the way humans of today know their favorite TV channels. There are still places where you can view the naturally appearing sky. There is a n...
24 Mar 20202min
