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534-Followups
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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: Apr 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
531-Alex's Catch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
529-Africano 4
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt ...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
528-Asteroid Billiards
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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
524-Home Wrecker
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
523-One Thousand
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 s...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
522-Comets Africano
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 c...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
520-Comet Lemmon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
519-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2018
  • 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
517-Close Again
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to ...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
516-Space Weather
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide sp...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
514-Close Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Since 1900 there have been 11 close approaches by asteroids larger than 300 feet in diameter. One of them, the Tunguska Object was about 400 feet ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
510-Fourth Closest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered a Toyota RAV4 sized space rock, now named 2018 UA, streaking...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
509-Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Until recently the discovery of very close approaching asteroids was rare, however, due to improvements in telescopes, cameras, and computers aster...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
508-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Don't count on the decrease in solar activity to save you from human produced global warming, however something potentially important to you is hap...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
507-Eric's Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills which enable them to predict the impact of tiny space rocks. Thus in the future you may h...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Dennis O’Brien- Protecting Outer Space for Humanity
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The 2018 International Astronomical Conference held in Bremen, Germany, during the first week of October, 2018, was attended by approximately 2000...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
506-Large PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bi...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
505-What A Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my C...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9