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CSS Observer Kowalski Strikes Again…As Does Another of His Recently Discovered Earth-Impacting Asteroids!

June 4, 2018

For only the third time in history a near-Earth asteroid was discovered before impacting Earth. Remarkably, all three objects have been discovered by one observer at the Catalina Sky Survey.

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Catalina Sky Survey Posts a Record Year of Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery in 2017

Feb. 25, 2018

The Catalina Sky Survey has been a leader in NEO surveying and discovery for two decades, and recent upgrades to hardware, software and survey strategies have pushed discoveries to all-time records.

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Catalina Sky Survey Spots SpaceX's Space-bound Roadster

Feb. 21, 2018

Catalina Sky Survey observer's succesfully acquired images of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy fast receeding payload: a Tesla Roadster. Enjoy the full story on UA News. (Above Image: SpaceX)

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Catalina Sky Survey finds double trouble in near-Earth neighborhood

Feb. 11, 2018

Two new asteroids discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey had cosmically close flybys, passing between the Earth and moon.

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CSS Presents Advances at the 2017 AAS Planetary Sciences Meeting

Oct. 23, 2017

Telescope and surveying advances at the Catlaina Sky Survey have dramatically increased Near-Earth object (NEO) discoveries.

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Binary Asteroid-Comet is New Type of Object

Sept. 26, 2017

An already unusual solar system object has just become even more curious

 

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It’s an Asteroid, It’s a Comet, It’s…well, Both for Now!

July 10, 2017

The object known to astronomers as (457175) 2008 GO98, once thought to be a Hilda-type asteroid is now showing signs of cometary activity.

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CSS in the Spotlight on Asteroid Day

June 28, 2017

June 30th, Asteroid Day provides Catalina Sky Survey experts a world-wide stage to explain the science of discovering near-Earth asteroids.

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Comet Johnson (C/2015 V2)

May 18, 2017

Spectacular Comet Johnson becomes a binocular object in May 2017!

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2014 JO25 Contact Binary Asteroid

May 17, 2017

2014 JO25 appears to be a contact binary asteroid, this from spectacular radar images acquired by NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.

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