Posted on 11/22/2020 9:56:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
They're headed straight for the Australian outback, and they're due to land on Sunday, December 6.
They've come from an ancient asteroid, older than the planets themselves, and in past eras, objects like it helped make the Earth into the living planet it is today.
Those pieces of an asteroid are safely stored inside a spacecraft, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa2.
If all goes to plan, their impact onto the Woomera Testing Range will be a gentle one.
It will be the second time anybody has successfully returned a sample from an asteroid, and the first time one will be returned from an asteroid rich in water and the carbon-based building blocks of life known as organics.
Hayabusa2 is set to pass close by the Earth on December 6.
It will jettison its sample return case, which will land in Woomera to be picked up by Japanese and Australian scientists.
This treasure trove from Ryugu will reveal fascinating insights into the history of the Solar System, the Earth, and the beginnings of life itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at canberratimes.com.au ...
Interesting.
You know......
Yep, nuke it from space its the only way to be sure.
The Japanese are bombing Australia again, just like WW2. Remember Dec. 7, 1941 folks. The way the revisionist Marxist Academic Left is going, they will have new textbooks claiming that the US bombed Pearl Harbor that day, not the Japanese (John Belucchi, smile from wherever you are).
Armageddon! Good movie. Deep Impact, okay. “On The Beach” - very negative view of things.
Wow, did you actually recognize those images from those movies you mentioned? I had no idea. They were just things I found through an ‘asteroid’ ‘impact’ ‘gif’ Google Images search I did (gifs are very brief animated videos).
Or the Blob.😳
The Blob was a meteor wasn’t it?
Meteors are just asteroids that have fallen to earth.
Ahhh, you’re right.
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