Tag: asteroid
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#MorningMonarchy: April 24, 2018
Remote mind control, facial recognition tests and space miner trillionaires + this day in history w/Hubble Space Telescope launch and our song of the day by Girl Talk on your Morning Monarchy for April 24, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: August 31, 2017
King/Kill Kanye, the Nashville Statement and the Satanic Panic redux + this day in history w/the death of Diana and our song of the day by Godspeed You! Black Emperor on your Morning Monarchy for August 31, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 1, 2016
Crashing robots, snatching websites and virtual whistleblowing + this day in history w/the Weathermen bomb and our song of the day by the James Hunter Six on your Morning Monarchy for March 1, 2016.
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Bad weather delays Japan asteroid probe lift off
from phys.org: Bad weather will delay the launch of a Japanese space probe on a six-year mission to mine a distant asteroid, just weeks after a European spacecraft’s historic landing […]
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Research shows collision created Chelyabinsk asteroid
from phys.org: On February 15 2013, an asteroid exploded about 30 kilometers above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The explosion, shared on video around the world, was the Earth’s second largest recorded airburst. […]
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Curiosity Snaps First Asteroid Photo from Red Planet
from sciencerecorder.com: According to a statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Curiosity Mars rover captured the first-ever image from the Red Planet’s surface to show an […]
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100’s of Killer Asteroids Hurtling Toward Earth?!
from americanlivewire.com: The global network that listens for nuclear weapons detonations detected 26 asteroids exploded in Earth’s atmosphere from 2000 to 2013, data collected by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban […]
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Close Call In Space Tonight: Asteroid Zips By Earth
from cnn.com: Only in space would 2 million miles be considered a close call. An asteroid with an estimated diameter of three football fields zoomed by Earth late Monday, missing […]
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For 2nd Time Ever, We Saw an Asteroid Before It Hit Us
from newser.com: While working a solo shift on New Year’s Eve, an Arizona astronomer spotted a car-sized asteroid en route to Earth. There are a few amazing things about this: […]
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More Asteroid Strikes Are Likely, Scientists Say
from smellslikehumanspirit.com: “When an asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February, shattering windows for miles and injuring well over 1,000 people, experts said it was a rare event […]
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5 Weird Things About Vesta
4 Vesta appears to be only a rock to most of us, it’s still an appreciable body not far in relative terms. Vesta orbits at a distance of 156, 000,000 […]
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Asteroid 2012 DA14 Close Approach Feb 15
Don Yeomans, NASA manager of Near Earth Object Office, reassures in two minute video that asteroid DA 14 will not hit earth or even a satellite. 2012 DA 14 will […]
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Apophis Flyby Of Earth Tonight
Planetsave blog entry advises of “…close fly-by on Wednesday night researchers will have a good opportunity to learn more about the asteroid, getting a better idea of its future trajectory.” […]
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#DataDump: Homeless Hotspots, Phonehacking, Hollywood
Turning the Homeless Into 4G Hotspots at SXSW // FBI says paying cash for coffee is a sign of terrorist intent // DARPA’s Director Quits to Take Executive Slot at Google // Google Exec Joins Microsoft, Trashes Google // Supercomputer models atomic bomb saving Earth from massive asteroid