155-Full Moon

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155-Full Moon

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Jun 26, 2015

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For some people the full Moon is for howling. For asteroid hunters it is time to regroup and make improvements in the process of finding Earth approaching objects

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Jun 26, 2015

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Space, Asteroid Hunting, and Astronomy, an insider view.The music is "Eternity" by John Lyell.Astronomy Asteroids Space NASA Comets Earth Impact

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87-MOM Reaches Mars: India becomes the first Asian nation to send a spacecraft to Mars. by Travelers In The Night
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88-Space Rocks: Space rocks have been observed hurtling between planets, flying through our atmosphere, and lying on the surface of planet Earth. by Travelers In The Night
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94-You Are Close To Outer Space: Outer space is not far from you, it just takes a lot of energy to get there. by Travelers In The Night
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85-Obscuring The Cosmos: In 10 years there will only be a few places in the United States to see the Milky Way clearly or view a meteor striking across the night sky. by Travelers In The Night
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105-New Human Exploration Of Space: The successful unmanned test of the Orion Spacecraft is the beginning of a new chapter in the human exploration of space. by Travelers In The Night
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108-How Close Will It Come To Us: When will you be told about a potential asteroid impact? by Travelers In The Night
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91-Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: A small meteoroid traveling faster than a rifle bullet has more kinetic energy than a locomotive. by Travelers In The Night
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97-A Large Strange One: The discovery of a small cold world far from Earth. by Travelers In The Night
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90-Shine Little Asteroid Shine: A small asteroid becomes bright enough to be seen with a small telescope and an electronic camera. by Travelers In The Night
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93-Name That Asteroid: A unique program allows students to discover and name asteroids. by Travelers In The Night
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84-Space Travelers-Martian Meteorites: Rocks ejected from Mars by the impact of an asteroid or comet can and do find their way to Earth. by Travelers In The Night
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112-A Banner Year For Asteroid Hunters: 2014 was a record year for the asteroid hunting community with more than 1,450 new objects being discovered. by Travelers In The Night
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92-An Earth Approaching Comet: A recently discovered Earth Approaching comet reminds us that there are objects like this out there and how they could influence human activity. by Travelers In The Night
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116-Three Is A Record: In less than three and a half hours 3 Potentially Hazardous asteroids were discovered. by Travelers In The Night
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106-Your Reality Fueled Spacecraft: NASA/JPL has developed a new computer program, based on software game architecture, which allows you to tour space using real NASA data. by Travelers In The Night
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102-Little Asteroid On An Inside Track: A small asteroid will make close approaches to Earth, our Moon, and Venus. by Travelers In The Night
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103-Small Asteroids In Earth-like Orbits: Small asteroids come close enough at the right speeds for us to visit them. by Travelers In The Night
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89-Witnessing An Asteroid Impact: What would it be like to witness an asteroid impact similar to what happened at Tunguska, Russia in 1908. by Travelers In The Night
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99-Peppered By Space Rocks: It appears that the human population is at more at risk from smaller rather than larger Earth impacting asteroids. by Travelers In The Night
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95-Phantom Meteor Shower: Observations of what appeared to be different objects, over the time span from 1819 to the present, are likely to be manifestations of the same traveler in the night. by Travelers In The Night
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115-Ballistic Capture: A new plan for a space trip to Mars will be able to deliver a steady stream of supplies to a human space colony on the red planet. by Travelers In The Night
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86-A Close Flyby: A semi-trailer truck sized, rapidly rotating, asteroid comes almost to the distance of the communication satellites from Earth. by Travelers In The Night
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100-Where Extension Cords Can't Reach: The use of Radioisotope Power Systems has brought us a wealth of knowledge about our solar system. by Travelers In The Night
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107-Mining Asteroids: Mining asteroids may seem farfetched, however, some on our planet are actively pursuing this goal. by Travelers In The Night
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96-Target Asteroids: Students have the opportunity to do original scientific research and to discover and name asteroids. by Travelers In The Night
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104-Jupiter Trojan Confusion: The Jupiter Trojan asteroids can masquerade as near Earth Objects. by Travelers In The Night
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98-Objects Visiting Our Neighborhood: Every month we discover small asteroids which come closer than the Moon. by Travelers In The Night
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110-Asteroids Accessible By Astronauts: Asteroid hunters have discovered nearly 100 small objects which are accessible by astronauts. by Travelers In The Night
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120-Finally A Good Night: A good night of asteroid hunting along with the appearance of an unknown object. by Travelers In The Night
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132-Kowalski's Forever Comet: Kowalski's 12th comet is destined for a long cold journey till the end of time. by Travelers In The Night
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799-Nature's Gateways: The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only a visitor.These New Mexico neighbors give us a sense of wonder, glimpses of history, new knowledge to... by Travelers In The Night
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286E-301-Visitors From Afar: A pair of comets visiting our neighborhood are discovered in a matter of 4 days. One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is having a comet named for you. To do this you must be the first to discover it as a moving point of light in the night sky... by Travelers In The Night
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798-Destination Enceladus: 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 potentially could be the home of fellow living creatures. by Travelers In The Night
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285E-299-Sporadic Geysers: Using a small telescope or a set of binoculars you can see Europa for yourself as a small moving point of light circling the giant planet Jupiter. More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered this seemingly small dead world the Hubble Space... by Travelers In The Night
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797-Recoveries: It is essential that asteroid hunters keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids to make sure that their orbits haven’t changed as they encounter other objects in space to make them a threat to our home planet. by Travelers In The Night
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284E-298-Rosetta: The Rosetta Spacecraft left planet Earth in 2004. During its twelve year lifetime this robotic emissary traveled 5 billion miles on 6 trips around the Sun, flew by Earth three times, visited Mars, and cruised by two asteroids. Rosetta needed to take... by Travelers In The Night
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796-COMET C.2024 E1 (Wierzchos)-Preview: On the 3rd of March 2024 while asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon , Arizona my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos discovered a comet moving through the constellation of Draco.Since we don’t know Kacper’s comet’s... by Travelers In The Night
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283E-297-White Sky: Inappropriate night time outside lighting causes accidents and does not deter crime. However, it blinds you from the beauty of the Universe which surrounds you. by Travelers In The Night
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795-Spiral Comet: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes near the Sun once every 71 years. It was discovered in 1812 by Jean Louis Pons at Marseilles, France and then rediscovered by American Astronomer William Robert Brooks in 1883. Electronic cameras reveal this comet's... by Travelers In The Night
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282E-296-Tilted History: Seasons are created by the fact that the Earth's axis of rotation is currently tilted 23 1/2 degrees relative to our path around the Sun. The slight out of roundness of the Earth's orbit combined with a 41,000 year cycle in its 3 degree axis of... by Travelers In The Night
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794-An Apollo Space Rock to Follow: Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow when she discovered, 2024 BR4, a two football field diameter Earth approaching asteroid.Vivian’s... by Travelers In The Night
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281E-295-Close Passes: During a recent 3 night observing run my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny discovered 4 asteroids which can come to less than one half the Moon's distance from us. Interestingly one of them passed about 25,000 miles over the South Pole 2 days... by Travelers In The Night
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793 Close Space Rock: Perhaps the most dangerous Amor asteroid is 2006 HZ51 .It was discovered by my team the Catalina Sky Survey. Fortunately the closest 2006 HZ51 will come to our home planet is June 11 of 2116 when it will pass us harmlessly 26 times the distance to... by Travelers In The Night
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280E-294-Dangerous Duo: Recently in the space of 28 hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammates Rose Matheny and Carson Fuls discovered two Potentially Hazardous Asteroids to add to the list of the more than 1700 which asteroid hunters have discovered. Fortunately, none of the... by Travelers In The Night
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792-Closest Approaching Comet: P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the world have the chance to discover a comet in images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or... by Travelers In The Night
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279E-293-From Luna: More than 240 Lunar meteorites have been found in the Dhofar region of Oman, on the LaPaz Icefield of Antartica, and other locations on the Earth's surface. These space traveling rocks were blasted from the Moon's surface by the impact of asteroids... by Travelers In The Night
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791-A Fireball and It’s Gifts: It all started when Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary reported the position and brightness of an unknown asteroid rapidly moving through the constellation of Lynx. Three hours later , the object, now called 2024 BX1... by Travelers In The Night
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278E-292-Disintegrating Comet: Comets are made up of organic materials and ices of various substance which are left over from the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago. When the gravity of a nearby star or other object changes one of these dirty snowball's orbit, its... by Travelers In The Night
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790-Vivian's Debut: My new Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Vivian Carjaval was scheduled for three 13h long winter nights for her first solo observing run on our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona. As luck would have it she couldn’t observe the first night because of... by Travelers In The Night
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277E-291-Rose Rules: Anyone who thinks women can't do computers and science needs to meet my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny. On a recent 3 night observing run at the 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Rose took over the world of asteroid hunting when she posted... by Travelers In The Night
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789-Asteroid With A Tail: My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he came across a very curious object. It has an orbit like an ordinary main belt asteroid. However,... by Travelers In The Night
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276E-290-Screaming Aten: I knew from the short regularly space streaks on the four images I had just obtained with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch on Mount Lemmon, Arizona, I was looking at the path of an Earth approaching object. Turns out, this previously unknown object,... by Travelers In The Night
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788-!00 Years of Wilderness: In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natural night sky. Today, because of inappropriate night lighting, the vast majority of children will never... by Travelers In The Night
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275E-289-Strange Comet: C/2016 Q4 (Kowalski) is my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski's 14th comet discovery. It orbits the Sun once every 68 years on a cold path between Saturn and Neptune. by Travelers In The Night
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787-Far Out: In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night. by Travelers In The Night
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274E-288-Coming Out Of Monsoon: In the southwest, the life giving monsoon rains occur in July and August, divide the observing year into two halves, and give asteroid hunters a chance to do major equipment maintenance and upgrades. My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Richard Kowalski... by Travelers In The Night
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786-Comet 31: My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona. It orbits the Sun once every 6 years on a path between Mars and Jupiter. Comet P/2023/Y1 (Gibbs) is... by Travelers In The Night
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273E-286-Neighboring World: Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have discovered a rocky Earth like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our Sun. The planet named Proxima b is about 1.3 times more massive than Earth, orbits it's dim red star... by Travelers In The Night
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785-Secret Asteroid Mission: Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable nearby rocky M type asteroid is being planned in secret so that some other company doesn’t have the chance... by Travelers In The Night
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272E-285-Mars Impactors: In 2015 the Earth was struck by at least 43 meteoroids which created bright fireballs. Their arrival does not seem to be correlated with the position of the Earth in it's orbit about the Sun.Overall a given piece of ground on Mars is several times... by Travelers In The Night
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