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801-Jacqui’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Astronaut on an Asteroid , Credit: NASA (Advanced Concepts Program)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when sh...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
800-Telescope Reborn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

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  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
798-Destination Enceladus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

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  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
786-Comet 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Enke, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
783--Kacper’s Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception of a Centaur, Credit: NASA/NEOWISE
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
777-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
776-Naming Asteroids and Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Sun and Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it r...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
775-3 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth,Moon, and Asteroid, Credit: NASA and Texas A&M
During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
774-Loss and Gain
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vera Rubin Main Telescope Under Construction, Credit: Eric Christensen
The Catalina Sky Survey searches the sky as rapidly as possible in search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet....

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
773-Discovery and Recovery
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of an Asteroid and the Earth, Credit: ESA
New observations linked with discovery observations 10 years earlier provide a significant improvement in the precision of our knowledge of 2013 T...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
765 Bright Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Bright Fireball, Credit: Bill Stewart
Bright fireball meteors sometimes rain pieces of themselves onto the ground for meteorite hunters to discover.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
761-Alessandra’s Duo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact, Credit: NASA
In less than two hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Allesandra Serrano discovered two small fast moving space rocks. Both of them passed through...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
760- Discover an Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Dimorphos, Credit: NASA
Carson Fuls, one of my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, is leading the effort that will allow you to join our NASA funded adventure in asteroid hunt...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
759-Number 7
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: NASA
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
758-Weird Supernova
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
An extremely wide field of view camera, the Zwicky Transient Facility, operated by Caltech on Palomar Mountain in California is able to take images...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
757-Alien Signals
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A hypothetical alien craft transmits radio signals into space. Scientists are on the hunt for signals like these., Credit: Breakthrough Listen / Danielle Futselaar
Project Breakthrough Listen is spending $100 million over 10 years so that radio telescopes can search for signals which may indicate extraterrestr...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
756-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception asteroid Impact 65 million years ago, Credit: NASA (Don Davis)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
754-Very Fast Moving Objects In The Night Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception of Earth and a Small Asteroid, Credit: NASA
Very small fast moving asteroids pass through our solar system.About once a month an object like 2023 KU4 enters our atmosphere, releases the ener...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
752 Lunker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting , in the evening twilight, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
751 Ball Pit
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Kid In Ball Pit, Credit: WebMD.com
To the amazement of NASA scientists, when the NASA OSIRIS-Rex touched down on the surface of Bennu to obtain a sample, the sample collecting arm...

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
750-Asteroid Slam(538)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: DART, Credit: NASA
Humans are slamming projectiles into space rocks. These experiments will give us the know how to deal with a dangerous space rock which has our num...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
749-Earth Glow(537)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Glow, Credit: NASA/ESA
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona ...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
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747-Alone or Not(535)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Solar Sail and Laser Power Interstellar Spacecraft, Credit: Breakthrough Starshot
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breat...

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  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
746-Followups(534)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they ...

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  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9