This is a group of amateur astronomers who are searching for those big chucks of rocks coming this way. Join this group and help mankind in the search for asteroids and other extraterrestial debris. If it's big enough to end life on this planet, at least we can take a photo of it. If we can image the interloper, we can't say that we didn't know what hit us!

All astronomers, amateur and professional are encouraged to use the largest aperture telescopes and binoculars that you can get your hands on. The bigger the aperture, the better. We are looking especially for NEOs (near earth orbiters). Members should keep their discoveries to themselves because it won't help to report it to anyone, but if it makes you feel better, you can report your findings to the Minor Planet Center http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

Please create a photo album and upload your NEO photos so the rest of us can see what's coming.

Photo: This color picture is made from images taken by the imaging system on the Galileo spacecraft about 14 minutes before its closest approach to asteroid 243 Ida on August 28, 1993. The range from the spacecraft was about 10,500 kilometers. The images used are from the sequence in which Ida's moon was originally discovered; the moon is visible to the right of the asteroid.
It appears to be about 52 kilometers (32 miles) in length, more than twice as large as Gaspra, the first asteroid observed by Galileo in October 1991. Ida is an irregularly shaped asteroid placed by scientists in the S class (believed to be like stony or stony iron meteorites). It is a member of the Koronis family, presumed fragments left from the breakup of a precursor asteroid in a catastrophic collision. Courtesy of NASA.

The "Owners" and Group's Moderators are Steve E. Farmer Jr. and Marcelo Saavedra