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Caption: Comet P/2019 Y2 (Fuls) Imaged with the 40" telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona with bias rates equal to the comet motion. It is 4-60 second exposures co-added together. The stars appear as trails since the telescope was tracking the comet., Credit:  Catalina Sky Survey/NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory/University of Arizona
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Leo when he spotted a faint fuzzy looking object with a ta...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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A recently discovered asteroid spends most of its time high above the plane of the solar system far from our Sun. Unknown asteroids on such a path...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne, discovered a potentially dangerous and perhaps valuable asteroid with our 60 inch telescope ...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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In 2019, asteroid hunters set a new record by discovering 2,433 Earth approaching objects including 85 which could potentially become a threat to p...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin's backyard all sky camera in Tucson, Arizona recorded a brilliant fireball meteor which took...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Comet Neat, Credit: NASA/NOAO/NSF/T. Rector/Z. Levay/L.Frattare
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting, in the constellation of Hydra, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Recent findings, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research suggests that there is more water locked in the minerals of nearby asteroids, whi...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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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
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Nine hours after it was discovered a tiny, 4 foot in diameter, space rock streaked less than 4,000 miles above southern Africa as it passed throug...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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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
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On a clear but windy night, near the fall equinox, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was able to discover and verify 23 new Earth approa...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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An object the size of this huge space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere every 180,000 years with an energy of 5,800 megatons of TNT. The only pla...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
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This week on the show: Looking for evidence - Cyborgs are real, they're here already, and we'd love to introduce you to them. Also, if you lik...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fa...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
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Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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In a most amazing turn of events, an international team of astronomers have published research in the Journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters w...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Jessica McCarty
You may have seen some headlines recently declaring that “The Arctic is on Fire!” Are these just sensationalist reports? Or do these fires represen...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
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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
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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
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A given piece of ground on Mars receives several times more space rock impacts than a similar sized area on Earth. Perhaps, in the future the Marti...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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49 years after the Lunar Landing Module "Snoopy" was abandoned by Apollo 10 Astronauts, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls may have spott...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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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
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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
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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
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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
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