Travelers in the Night Eps. 865 & 866: New Potentially Hazardous Asteroid & Interstellar Visitor

Travelers in the Night Eps. 865 & 866: New Potentially Hazardous Asteroid & Interstellar Visitor

Published: March 22, 2026

Duration: 6:05

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org

From September 2025.

Today's 2 topics:

- On a short June night my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was observing with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona in the constellation of Ursa Major when a relatively bright fast moving point of light appeared in a set of his images. Even though on its current path Greg's discovery, 2025 MM89, has virtually no chance of impacting...