Asteroid Surveys
About
Catalina Sky Survey
The mission of the Catalina Sky Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) that pose an impact risk to Earth and its inhabitants.
The identification of the iridium anomaly at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (Alvarez et al. 1980), associated Chicxulub impact crater (Hildebrand et al. 1991) and the Permian-Triassic "great dying" possibly being associated with Australian Bedout Crater (Becker et al. 2004) strongly suggest that impacts by minor planets play an important role in the evolution of life.
SPACEWATCH®
The primary goal of SPACEWATCH® is to explore the various populations of small objects in the solar system, and study the statistics of asteroids and comets in order to investigate the dynamical evolution of the solar system. SPACEWATCH® also finds potential targets for interplanetary spacecraft missions, provides follow-up astrometry of such targets, and finds objects that might present a hazard to the Earth.
Faculty
Other Researchers
Asteroid Surveys Researchers
Adam Battle
PTYS Graduate Student
Asteroid Surveys, Small Bodies, Space Situational AwarenessMelissa Brucker
Principal Investigator, Spacewatch, Research Scientist
Asteroid Surveys, Small BodiesCarson Fuls
Director, Catalina Sky Survey, PTYS Graduate Student
Asteroid Surveys, Small BodiesTommy Grav
Research Scientist/Senior Staff Scientist
Asteroid Surveys, Small BodiesSupport Staff
Asteroid Surveys Support Staff
Tracie Beuden
Survey Operations Specialist, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysTerrence Bressi
Engineer/Observer, Spacewatch
Asteroid SurveysVivian Carvajal
Survey Operations Specialist, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysDon Fay
R&D Systems Engineer, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysJacqueline Fazekas
Research Technologist, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysAlex Gibbs
Principal Engineer, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysAlbert Grauer
Technical Expert, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysJoshua Hogan
Research Technologist, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysRichard Kowalski
Research Specialist, Senior, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysJeffrey Larsen
Technical Expert, Spacewatch
Asteroid SurveysGregory Leonard
Research Specialist, Senior, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysRonald Mastaler
Observer, Spacewatch
Asteroid SurveysDavid Rankin
Senior Research Specialist, Catalina Sky Survey
Asteroid SurveysMichael Read
Chief Engineer/Observer, Spacewatch
Asteroid Surveys