August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
Could the Catalina Sky Survey be improved to find even more asteroids - especially those like 164121 that might threaten Earth? In 2014, NASA ...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... community believes that asteroids pose a serious threat to us right now, however. Eric Christensen, the head of the Catalina Sky Survey, told New Scientist recently that "the popular conception of asteroids is that they are menacing and going...
28 October 2015
Catalina Sky Survey spots object WT1190F – set to return to Earth on November 13
... is a problem – and the mystery object set to plummet to Earth in November is a good reminder as to why. Spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey, due to its parameters, object WT1190F (are the letters WTF here accidental? We somehow doubt it) is believed...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... is now fairly well known, thanks to discovery and tracking efforts from previous and ongoing surveys. Ground-based Spacewatch, LINEAR, the Catalina Sky Survey and Pan-STARRS, as well as space-based NEOWISE, have already come close to identifying...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
...-bys are expected to end in impact. The asteroid was discovered on September 5th by the Cassegrain reflector telescope at Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, US. According to NASA, the asteroid approaches planet Earth roughly once every two to four years...
17 April 2017
April 19th to be an exciting day for stargazers as an asteroid and a comet pass close to Earth
..., and won't be back again until after 2600. The asteroid was discovered in May 2014 by scientists at the Catalina Sky Survey by Tuscon, Arizona. "Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will be a very...
