894-Discovery Night at the Schmidt
From Travelers In The Night by Albert D. Grauer
April 10, 2026 · 2 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the discovery of four Earth approaching asteroids found using a Schmidt telescope.
On a recent night my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carvajal found 4 Earth approaching space rocks with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona. These Earth approaching asteroids are all small with an average diameter about the width of tennis court. On their current paths none of them come closer than about 4 lunar distances from our home planet.
People in this episode
Host: Albert D. Grauer
Topics covered
- asteroids
- space rocks
- astronomy
- Earth approaching
- telescope
Keywords
- Earth approaching asteroids
- Schmidt telescope
- Mt. Bigelow
- Catalina Sky Survey
- space rocks
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, Earth, lunar
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