In the Media

• • • • November 22, 2021 AFRL – AFRL Collaborates with Magdalena Ridge Observatory to Further Space Exploration

• • • • February 4, 2020 CNET – Adorable asteroid 2020 CW makes one of the closest passes by Earth ever seen
      • January 23, 2020 NASA.gov – NESSI Emerges as New Tool for Exoplanet Atmospheres
      • January 23, 2020 NASA.gov – Up All Night: NESSI Comes to Life at Palomar Observatory

• • • • January, 2019 Faymonville Group News Magazine – Precision Work for a Space Telescope (pg. 8)
      • August, 2019 Wired Magazine – How America’s Spooks Seek to Spy on Distant Satellites

• • • • February 1, 2018 Popular Mechanics – The Most Detailed Image of Another Star Is Also a Preview of Our Sun’s Dying Days
      • April 25, 2018 Scientist Live – Beam Compressor Interferometer
      • May 16, 2018 Photonics – Optical Surfaces to Produce Magdalena Ridge Observatory Compressor
      • May 26, 2018 Photonics – Optical Surfaces to Produce Beam Compressor for Magdalena Ridge Observatory
      • June 14, 2018 dchieftain – New eyes on the Cosmos: Tech takes lead with groundbreaking interferometer
      • June 21, 2018 dchieftain – NMAC event underway
      • June 22, 2018 UNM Newsroom – UNM Physics and Astronomy Department hosts Research Experiences for Undergraduates
      • June 2018 – We made the cover page of Laser Focus World!
      • June 2018 Laser Focus World – Photonic advances to dramatically improve astronomical interferometry in the next decade (MROI Project Scientist Michelle Creech-Eakman co-author)
      • July 3, 2018 Science Magazine – Telescope array will spy on spy satellites, star surfaces and black holes
      • July 23, 2018 – Good Day New Mexico interview of Michelle Creech-Eakman
      • August 9, 2018 – Chinese University Officials Visit Tech
      • August 30, 2018 – Center, streets, sewer top list
      • September 1, 2018 – Tech honors Brierley with president’s medal
      • October 18, 2018 dchieftan – Keeping Watch on the Ridge
      • October 28, 2018 – Pair Keep Watch on NM’s Skies
      • December, 2018 EIE Group Digest – MROI Project (pg. 4)

• • • • May 11, 2017 Astronomy Magazine – Viewing the sky at radio frequencies
      • July 06, 2017 Science.com – NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office: How They Detect Asteroids Early
      • August 10, 2017 Heinrich press releases – Heinrich to announce congrssional funding for NMT MROI
      • October 17, 2017 dchieftain – Enchanted Skies Star Party brings sky watchers to Magdalena
      • November 02, 2017 KOB.com – NM scientists tracking object from outside solar system
      • November 04, 2017 phys.org – Astronomers complete first international asteroid tracking exercise
      • November 07, 2017 Daily Mail – The experiment that could save Earth: NASA reveals groundbreaking asteroid tracking project was a success – and ‘house-sized’ asteroid that skimmed past Earth WON’T hit us in the future
      • November 08, 2017 Universe today – Astronomers Practice Responding to a “Killer Asteroid”
      • November 09, 2017 Laser Focus World – IARPA Amon-Hen program seeks interferometer to image GEO satellites
      • December 16, 2017 dchieftain – Space tourism to launch in 2018?

• • • • July 23, 2016 Albuquerque Journal – Scanning the Heavens
      • November 10, 2016 UNM Newsroom – Near Earth object research using the MRO telescope
      • November 30, 2018 Astronomy Magazine – This asteroid is so small, it could fit in your living room
      • December 1, 2016 Space.com – 6-Foot-Wide ‘Bald’ Asteroid Is Smallest Ever Studied

• • • • March 31, 2015 Los Angeles Times – New Mexico: Observatory near Socorro to host stargazing party
      • September 24, 2015 DChieftain – New Mexico Tech lands $25 million MRO contract
      • September 28, 2015 Albuquerque Journal – $25 million to help Tech get telescope

• • • • April 17, 2014 JPL – Exoplanets Soon to Gleam in the Eye of NESSI
      • April 20, 2014 Clarksville Online – NASA says NESSI instrument will help Astronomers analyse Atmospheres, Compositions of Exoplanets

• • • • January 10, 2013 NBC News Cosmic Log – Another doomsday threat dies out: Asteroid Apophis won’t hit us in 2036
      • January 10, 2013 Science.com – Whew! Huge Asteroid Apophis Won’t Hit Earth in 2036
      • January 11, 2013 Universe today – Asteroid Apophis: Bigger, Darker But Not a Threat in 2036
      • April 26, 2013 NMSU – New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Announces Fellowships and Scholarships
      • September 7, 2013 TEDxABQ – Michelle Creech-Eakman on how Interferometry is an Astronomy Game -Changer

• • • • January 26, 2012 Universe today – 8-Meter-Wide Asteroid Will Pass Close to Earth January 27
      • January 27, 2012 Digital Journal – Asteroid 2012 BX34 brushes past Earth on Friday
      • May 22, 2012 Astronomy Magazine – Annular Eclipse of 2012 in Hydrogen -alpha over Magdalena Ridge Observatory
      • May 20, 2012 SportingNews.com – Solar eclipse likely to be seen during A’s-Giants game, other sports events
      • May 16, 2012 CNN.com – Weekend solar eclipse to project “ring of fire”
      • July, 2012 CavMag – President Daniel Lopez of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Visits Cambridge

• • • • August 17, 2011 Albuquerque Journal – Feds Provide $2.9M for Transportation -Related Projects in N.M.

• • • • January 7, 2010 Mountain Mail – Magdalena Ridge Observatory to Receive $4 million For Expansion
      • February, 2010 NOAO Currents – Science with Optical Interferometry – An Invitation to Join the SOC
      • June 4, 2010 Albuquerque Journal – New Mexico Astronomers Tracking Jupiter Impact
      • November 20, 2010 Space.com – Tiny Asteroid That Buzzed Earth Is a Fast-Spinning Rock
      • December 9, 2010 Mountain Mail – Scientists at Observatory Make Quick Discovery

• • • • September 11, 2009 Planetary Society – LCROSS Mission Selects Crater Cabeus A As Target for October 9 Impact
      • September 11, 2009 Astronomy Magazine – The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite reveals target crater for lunar south pole impacts
      • September 11, 2009 Universe today – LCROSS Impact Site on Moon Announced: Cabeus A
      • October 9, 2009 Ars Technica – No Plume, But a Firehose of Data From NASA Moon Bombing

• • • • January 3, 2008 Space.com – Asteroid’s Martian Impact: What Might Happen
      • January 4, 2008 USA Today – Asteroid hit: What might happen to Mars
      • January 4, 2008 – NASA says asteroid (slightly) less likely to hit Mars
      • January 9, 2008 NASA – Astronomers Rule Out Possibility of Asteroid Impact on Mars
      • January 10, 2008 Universe Today – Asteroid Won’t Hit Mars
      • January 10, 2008 Planetary Society – Mars impact chance drops to 1 in 10,000, which may as well be zero

The 2.4m telescope recently provided tracking data to help NASA refine the odds of faint asteroid 2007 WD5 hitting Mars on January 30, 2008. From the orbital data collected, a near miss is the most likely outcome.

• • • • January 10, 2008 Planetary Society – Alert the Martian Defense Force!

• • • • September 28, 2006 Astronomy Magazine – Enchanted Skies delights partygoers
      • October 25, 2006 Albuquerque Journal – Telescope Ready to Open Heavens
      • October 23, 2006 Astronomy Magazine – Observatory opens in New Mexico