The asteroid Racheldavis, which will occult a 9.8 magnitude star this weekend, was named in honor to Rachel Michelle Davis who, when she was a high school student, reached the final of a renowned science competition (Intel Science Talent Search). One of her rewards was then to have an asteroid named Racheldavis. She is…
On april 19th, asteroid 2014 JO25 was at its closest to earth (1.9 million km, almost five times farther than the moon). This 650m-wide rock belongs the categories of NEO (Near Earth Objects): it will probably impact earth one day because its orbit crosses earth’s orbit. But be reassured, this is a probabilistic calculation made…
UPDATE: Mountain View and Marseille, April 17, 2020. A group of citizen astronomers scattered all over the world has just demonstrated how a network of digital Unistellar eVscopes can work together to deliver the first-of-its-kind crowd-generated images of Comet ATLAS while its disintegrating. […] A similar call for observations was released on Tuesday, April 14…