20E-32-A Peanut Shaped Asteroid with a Moon
It appears that Hektor and its moon were created by a collision between two icy asteroids early in the 4.5 billion year history of our solar system when things were more chaotic. They happened to land...
16 Apr 20192min
531-Alex's Catch
On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while observing with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...
12 Apr 20192min
19E-31-A Gentle Breakup Of An Asteroid
An asteroid spins up and comes apart. When the Earth runs into its trail we will be treated to a meteor shower.
9 Apr 20192min
530-Cuban Meteorites
A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.
5 Apr 20192min
18E-30-Asteroids On An Inside Track
Only 13 out of the more than 10,000 Earth approaching objects have their orbit completely within that of the Earth.
2 Apr 20192min
529-Africano 4
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona. Observers with sm...
29 Mar 20192min
17E-28-Finding An Asteroid for Astronauts
A prelude of a manned flyby of Venus and Mars could be a manned mission to an asteroid. The search for an appropriate asteroid continues.
26 Mar 20192min
528-Asteroid Billiards
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth.
22 Mar 20192min
