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809-How Close Can An Asteroid Approach
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of Earth and an Asteroid , Credit: Texas A&M/NASA
The Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance or Earth MOID for short is the closest an asteroid can come to our home planet on it's current orbit.

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
807-Moon Orbit Crossers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Impact Crater, Credit: NASA
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
804-Tracie’s Solo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Of Earth And An Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M/NASA
After months of training Tracie came full circle during her first solo 3 night observing run on the 60 inch telescope as she hosted groups of visi...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
803-Monster NEO
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travel...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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: 11
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: 10
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: 8
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
763-Hogan’s Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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: 10
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: 10
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: 11
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: 10
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: 11
710-Boomer(496)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fireball, Credit: Arne Danielsen
The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
700-Martian Storms(486)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Martian Dust Storm, Credit: NASA
In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
695-A Large Visitor(480)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

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  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
694-Comet Catalina(479)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: CSS/NASA/U.Arizona
Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the en...

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  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
693-Comet Leonard III(478)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Christensen, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

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  • Added: May 08, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
692-Lonely Fragment(475)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

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  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
689-Botswana Bound(471)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve., Credit: Alexande Proyer
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
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684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11