11E-20-A Serendipitous Supernova in M82
Many stars, galaxies, and other objects seem to be the same year after year giving us the idea that things are static out there. Every once in a while a new object bursts into view producing a, WOW, ...
15 Feb 20192min
523-One Thousand
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a single year. They are an interesting part of our envi...
12 Feb 20192min
10E-19-An Asteroid with a Comet Orbit [2013JD4]
The Centaur type asteroid, 2013 JD4, is an interesting object. It takes 41.5 years to orbit the Sun on a path that takes it as close to Earth as we are to the Sun.When its orbit is changed as it passe...
8 Feb 20192min
522-Comets Africano
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are changing the Earth's climate who can guess what will b...
5 Feb 20192min
9E-18-The FIrst Pre-Impact Discovery [2008TC3]
2008 TC3 is the first of the two of small asteroids which astronomers have been able to find and track into our atmosphere. Samples of these impacting asteroids provide new insights into our solar sys...
1 Feb 20192min
521-Lunar Space Rock
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Growler discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejected from the Moon by the impact of an asteroid or comet...
29 Jan 20192min
8E-17-2013 US10 From Asteroid to Comet to Deep Space
An object is discovered that first appeared to be a huge near Earth asteroid. Subsequent observations show it to be a comet making a single trip through our solar system.
25 Jan 20192min
520-Comet Lemmon
An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.
22 Jan 20192min
