Three Tenors Hitting High Notes?
Introducing The Asteroid Hunters From RAS Observatory Fountain Valley, CA (PRWEB) December 15, 2005 — Everyone knows about the Three Tenors. But at the RAS Observatory, everyone’s singing about the Five Hunters. These top-notch amateur astronomers from around the world have formed a Web-based partnership dedicated to sharing information about discovering new, potentially Earth-threatening asteroids. Thanks to their hawk-eyed persistence, these asteroid hunters have discovered literally hundreds of previously unknown asteroids. Fortunately, none of these rocky lumps have proven dangerous. But the peril is always there; more than 120,437 asteroids have been catalogued – leaving an unknown number still swirling capriciously in space; as evidenced by the near impact of a 100’-diameter asteroid that streaked by in 2004, just 26,500 miles from Earth. It had been detected only three days prior to its fly-by. And that’s precisely the type of interplanetary beast the Five Hunters are determine
