23 May 2018
First permanent extrasolar asteroid found near Jupiter
... and her colleague Helena Morais, a researcher at UNESP in Brazil who first spotted the object with the Pan-STARRS telescopes in Hawaii in 2014. The asteroids distinctness was spotted when it was found that 2015 BZ509 shares an orbit...
17 April 2017
April 19th to be an exciting day for stargazers as an asteroid and a comet pass close to Earth
... the Moon, it should be visible to amateur stargazers with a small optical telescope for one or two nights. 2014-JO25 won't be the only visitor ...was discovered in 2011 using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii and has a nucleus of about one kilometre.
