230E-242-Spray Paint
A gentle method of causing an asteroid to miss planet Earth.Will spray paint save the world?Recently, NASA scientists using the giant RADAR telescope in Puerto Rico measured changes in the orbit of th...
18 Apr 20232min
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth
14 Apr 20232min
229E-241-Could Be Twins
A pair of possibly related comets pass unusually close to Earth.It is hard to have a personal feel for the microgravity of a comet since it is only a few ten thousandths of the pull of gravity we expe...
11 Apr 20232min
739-Comet Groller(527)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first comet. After the Sun bakes out all of the frozen gas...
7 Apr 20232min
228E-240-Why
What motivates asteroid hunters?Large dangerous asteroids are still out there to find.
4 Apr 20232min
738-Tiny Visitor(526)
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.
31 Mars 20232min
227E-239-Martian Lakes
We may be able to learn about the possibilities of life on Mars by studying land forms on the Tibetan Plateau here on Earth.
28 Mars 20232min
737-Collision(525)
I was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Steve Larson sent me an email requesting that I obtain some images of the asteroid 6478 Ga...
24 Mars 20232min
