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588-Encounter With Saturn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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From 1663 to 2011, seven comets had close encounters with Jupiter and two had close encounters with Saturn. In May of 1936, Comet P/2020 F1 Leonar...

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  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
587-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Images of the quiet Sun during a solar minimum make it look like a relatively static peaceful place. Occasionally during solar minimum, at the Cosm...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
585-Mini Moon II
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne were asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo with our 60 inch telescope w...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
584-Pop Up Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 thr...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
578-First PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
573-Sweet Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
568-Tough Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
564-Heavy Traffic
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of less than 13 hours four small space rocks zipped through the Earth-Moon neighborhood. All of them were discovered by my team, the N...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
555-Dead Comet Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower which was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956. To spot the ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
553-Exploring The Far Side
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Chinese, Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon where it is impossible to have direct radio communications with the Earth. I...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
549-Weirdest Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently the Kepler Spacecraft found that a catalogue star HD 139139 now nicknamed the "Random Transiter" had 28 apparently random sharp narrow di...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
548-Dragonfly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In our solar system the most exotic body which contains the complex organic molecules necessary for life is Saturn's Moon Titan. NASA's Dragonfly...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
542-Toughest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface...

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  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
539-Close Approaches
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During a recent 30 day period, 11 small space rocks passed closer to us than the Moon. If one of them were to enter our atmosphere and you were di...

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  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
538-Asteroid Slam
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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: May 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
537-Earth Glow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
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: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
536-Ultima Thule
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped ob...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
530-Cuban Meteorites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
525-Collision
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
521-Lunar Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Growler discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being eject...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
518-Busy Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On Halloween night while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona I discovered 21 space rocks streaking th...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
515-Dust Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of two large ghostly neighbors approximately 65,000 by 45,000 miles in size at the L4 and L5 sites approximately 250,000 miles from b...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
512-Aten
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Aten Asteroids are stealthy space rocks which can be dim and hard to detect since for most of their path about the Sun their illuminated side is f...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
490-Mini Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
483-Double Trouble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5