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543-Asteroid Zoo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dan...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
541-Most Dangerous in 2018
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fortunately, on its current path, the most dangerous asteroid discovered in 2018 cannot come closer than 12.5 times the Moon's distance to humanity...

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  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
540-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Being a near Earth asteroid is already a lonely existence since the paths of these small space rocks seldom bring them near any other material obje...

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  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
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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
535-Alone Or Not
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
533-100 Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood.

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
527-Comet Groeller
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his fir...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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
Piece image
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
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
516-Space Weather
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
513-Mtn Ops
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single asteroid without Steward Observatory's Mountain Lemmon Operations, or Mtn Ops for short. ...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 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
Piece image
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
Piece image
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
506-Large PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
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