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  • This Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually A Chunk Of The Moon

    10/26/2023 5:32:29 PM PDT · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 32 replies
    Space Chatter ^ | October 25, 2023 | Space Chatter Wire
    Scientists believe Kamo’oalewa will remain alongside Earth for millions of years. Could a near-Earth asteroid be a piece of the moon? Astronomers from the University of Arizona believe so. In a captivating cosmic discovery, scientists uncovered evidence suggesting that a near-Earth asteroid called Kamo’oalewa might be a fragment of the moon. The finding challenges previous assumptions about the origins of near-Earth asteroids and could have significant implications for our understanding of celestial bodies close to our planet.
  • NASA predicts large asteroid could smash into Earth in 159 years

    09/20/2023 2:52:46 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 46 replies
    NY Post ^ | 19/9/23 | Patrick Reilly
    NASA scientists have predicted there is a chance that a massive asteroid they have been tracking could smash into earth in the year 2182, potentially devastating an area the size of Texas. Bennu, a Near-Earth Object (NEO), orbits the earth roughly every six years and has been on the space agency’s radar since 1999 when it was first discovered. There have been three close encounters involving Bennu in 1999, 2005, and 2011, scientists said. On September 25, 2135, Bennu will make a close fly-by past Earth and has a miniscule chance through a pass through a “gravitational keyhole” that would...
  • Egypt Is Razing Tombs and Cultural Centers to Modernize Cairo

    08/29/2023 8:55:36 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    The Robb Report ^ | August 29, 2023 | Daniel Cassidy for Artnews
    Ancient tombs and cemeteries are being leveled to make way for new developments and roadways. The banks of the Nile are overly peppered with fast food restaurants, cafés, and military-owned gas stations. Trees and public gardens have been razed, according to the Times, often with little consideration to the environmental consequences.Per local accounts, some Cairo residents fear that new highways planned to alleviate congestion, along with newly built high-rise apartment buildings, will destroy much of the city's history and displace those who have lived in Cairo for generations.Darb 1718, a cultural center founded in 2007 by the artist Moataz Nasreldin...
  • Call it a comeback: Investors pump big money into Northeast Ohio shopping malls, filling store vacancies

    11/13/2022 2:00:08 AM PST · by EBH · 45 replies
    5 News ^ | 11/10/22
    NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio — Are shopping malls on their last leg and nearing extinction? It’s a question consumer experts have been asking for years. However, recent data shows indoor and outdoor malls are actually showing positive gains and nearing a comeback here in Northeast Ohio. With higher vaccination rates, baby boomers preferring in-person shopping, and a millennial generation loving nostalgia, some experts and investors believe we may have turned a corner in the retail landscape. Take a walk through Great Northern Mall in North Olmsted and you can’t help but notice the rush of shoppers, vibrant retail spaces, and holiday...
  • More reflections on the Mar-A-Lago raid: Trump as an illegitimate president

    08/15/2022 12:49:09 PM PDT · by servo1969 · 38 replies
    TheNewNeo.com ^ | 8-13-2022 | Neo
    One thing the Mar-A-Lago raid has driven home is that the left truly believes - and they think much of the general public will agree - that what ordinarily would be allowed most presidents and ex-presidents is not to be allowed to Trump. That is because they think and have always thought that he was an illegitimate president with no right to hold that office.It doesn't matter which reasoning they use to explain that point of view: he's too uncouth, he's stupid, he's a clown, he's beneath us, he's a Russian puppet, he's a racist, he wears a MAGA hat,...
  • 'Twilight telescopes' are finding 'city-killer' asteroids in an unexplored region of our solar system

    07/23/2022 11:09:03 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 13 replies
    [T]he most important asteroid discoveries are now being made in twilight, when astronomers are able to look close to the horizon — and close to the sun — for little-known asteroids that orbit inside the orbits of Earth, Venus and even Mercury. That includes the first asteroid with an orbit interior to Venus and one with the shortest-known orbital period around the sun, both of which have been unearthed in the last two years. It also includes "city-killers," asteroids large enough that if they were to impact Earth, the damage would be severe. DECam and another telescope are making it...
  • Huge 18,000mph Apollo-class asteroid set to zoom past Earth in 'close approach'

    11/21/2021 10:15:11 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 33 replies
    mirror.co.uk ^ | 20 Nov 2021 | ByLeonie Chao-Fong
    The Apollo-class asteroid, called 3361 Orpheus, is 984 feet wide and is travelling at around 18,000 miles per hour. NASA will be keeping a close eye on the huge space rock, which has made it onto the space agency's 'Close Approach' list. But there's no need to panic just yet – the asteroid will pass through a distance of 3.5 million miles from our home planet. Anything that passes within 120 million miles is considered a Near Earth Object (NEO), a term used to describe "comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into...
  • Asteroid 2011 ES4 to shuttle past Earth soon at a much closer distance than moon

    07/18/2020 8:42:19 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 24 replies
    Zee Media Bureau ^ | July 16, 2020 | Edited By: Reema Sharma
    NASA has said that asteroid 2011 ES4 will shuttle past the Earth in September at a much closer distance than the moon. 2011 ES4, listed on the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS)'s 'Close Approaches' database, will fly past the Earth on September 1 at 10:49 A.M. EDT. The asteroid will fly 0.00048 astronomical units away or about 44,618 miles at a speed of 18,253 miles per hour. Measuring 22 meters to 49 meters in diameter, NASA considered the asteroid as 'Potentially Hazardous', although there is no threat associated from it due to its amall diameter. NASA says, "Potentially Hazardous...
  • Lilly Wachowski Tells Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump ‘F— Both of You’ After They Quote ‘The Matrix’

    05/18/2020 2:38:41 AM PDT · by ZagFan · 39 replies
    yahoo.com ^ | 5-17-2020 | Jeremy Fuster
    A note to conservatives: Lilly Wachowski probably will not like it when you quote “The Matrix.” On Sunday, Tesla founder Elon Musk tweeted that people should “take the red pill,” advice that Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka retweeted with the enthusiastic comment “Taken!” Back in 1999, the red pill was a pivotal moment in “The Matrix,” as Neo is offered the choice to either take a blue pill and forget about the Matrix or to take the red pill and be revealed the truth about how the Matrix has been used by machines to enslave the entire human race. Musk’s comment...
  • NASA warns of an asteroid approaching Earth at 63,000 mph with a chance of impact [or not]

    12/27/2019 8:25:51 AM PST · by Red Badger · 93 replies
    www.econotimes.com ^ | Thursday, December 26, 2019 7:28 AM UTC | By Denise Nequinto
    More space rocks seem to be approaching Earth’s territory, and a new report reveals another one may bring in disasters. NASA has spotted an asteroid traveling at 63,000 miles per hour, and there is a possibility that it can impact the Earth. Express reports that the space agency recently tracked down an asteroid named 101955 Bennu but formally known as 1999 RQ36, hurtling towards Earth at a rapid speed of 63,000 miles per hour. NASA has not only labeled this a Potentially Hazardous Object or PHO, but they have also classified RQ36 with the second-highest rating on the Palermo Technical...
  • OSIRIS-REx Captures Sharper Images of Asteroid Bennu

    01/31/2019 3:27:24 AM PST · by vannrox · 11 replies
    Sci-News ^ | 29JAN19 | Editorial staff
    NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft has obtained new images of Bennu, a 1,614-foot (492 m) wide asteroid that orbits the Sun relatively close to the Earth.
  • Impact of asteroid that will approach Earth in 2029 'CANNOT be ruled out' [but pretty much no]

    07/06/2018 1:50:43 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 63 replies
    Express UK ^ | Tuesday, June 27, 2017 | Sean Martin
    Astronomers have calculated the Apophis asteroid will speed past Earth on April 13, 2029, at just 18,600 miles away -- a hair's width in astronomical terms. To put that into perspective, the moon is 238,900 miles away... If the 27 billion kg asteroid were to hit Earth, scientists calculate that it would leave a crater over a mile wide and a staggering 518 metres deep. However, most worryingly, the impact would be equivalent to 880 million tons of TNT being detonated -- some 65,000 times as powerful as the nuclear bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima. The next time the...
  • SURPRISE ASTEROID FLYBY

    04/15/2018 5:30:02 PM PDT · by MarchonDC09122009 · 26 replies
    Spaceweather.com ^ | 4/15/2018 | Spaceweather
    https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=2018+GE3 http://spaceweather.com/ SURPRISE ASTEROID FLYBY: With little warning, a relatively large asteroid flew through the Earth-Moon system on April 15th only 192,200 km (0.5 LD) from our planet. 2018 GE3 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey approaching Earth on April 14th. Hours later, amateur astronomer Michael Jäger of Weißenkirchen Austria video-recorded the space rock rushing through the southern constellation Serpens: "According to wikipedia, 2018 GE3 is the largest known asteroid to pass that close to Earth in observational history," says Jäger. "It was shining like a 13th magnitude star at the time of my observations." Based on the intensity of its reflected...
  • Asteroid that could’ve obliterated NYC skimmed past Earth – and NASA didn’t notice

    12/08/2017 9:25:30 AM PST · by Red Badger · 47 replies
    www.dailystar.co.uk ^ | 12/08/2017 | By Rachel O'Donoghue
    A MASSIVE asteroid that could have destroyed New York City skimmed past Earth – and NASA had no clue. The large space rock – dubbed 2017 VL2 – passed the planet on November 9 at an astonishing distance of just 73,000 miles, which is considered tiny in space terms. Space boffins think that if the rock measuring between 16 and 32 metres had hit, it could’ve wiped a major city such as New York off the map. The rock belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and was first seen at ATLAS-MLO observatory in Hawaii a day later. It was...
  • Fear Not: Quarter-Mile Asteroid Is No Threat To Earth, NASA Says

    12/09/2014 4:18:56 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 36 replies
    universetoday.com ^ | on December 9, 2014 | by Elizabeth Howell
    “While this approximately 400-meter sized asteroid has a three-year orbital period around the sun and returns to the Earth’s neighborhood periodically, it does not represent a threat because its orbital path does not pass sufficiently close to the Earth’s orbit … Any statements about risk for impact of discovered asteroids and comets should be verified by scientists and the media by accessing NASA’s Near Earth Object (NEO) program web site.”
  • GOP Hawks Worry Rand Paul Has Too Much Ron

    03/31/2014 12:35:04 PM PDT · by C19fan · 28 replies
    Time ^ | March 31, 2014 | Zeke J Miller
    Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is hard at work laying the groundwork for an almost certain presidential campaign in 2016, but as he broadens his support among libertarian and younger voters, there’s a budding countercampaign to take him down if he becomes a threat to actually win the nomination. At the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) meeting in Las Vegas this weekend, Paul was nowhere to be found, but his presence was felt in the form of a straw man — and frequent worry. Speaker after speaker, from former Florida governor Jeb Bush to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, laid into Paul’s...
  • Mystery Mini Moons: How Many Does Earth Have?

    02/10/2013 2:09:02 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 31 replies
    discovery ^ | Feb 7, 2013 11:50 AM ET | // by Irene Klotz
    Earth's gravity may not have the gravitas of Jupiter, but the planet regularly plucks small asteroids passing by and pins them into orbit. The mini-moons don't stay for long. Within a year or so they resume their looping, twisting paths like crazy straws around the sun. But others arrive to take their place. Simulations show that two asteroids the size of dishwashers and a dozen half-meter (1.6 feet) in diameter are orbiting Earth at any given time. Every 50 years or so something the size of a dump truck arrives. So far, there's been just one confirmed sighting. ... A...
  • Nasa video shows just how close asteroid will come to hitting Earth

    02/09/2013 9:15:04 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 46 replies
    DilayMailUK ^ | UPDATED: 10:11 EST, 8 February 2013
    U.S. space agency Nasa has released a frightening new video showing just how close a massive asteroid will come to slamming into the Earth next week. There are just seven days left until the 150ft-wide, 130,000 ton asteroid buzzes past our planet so close its trajectory will take it inside the orbit of communications and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size. But scientists promise the threatening space rock come no nearer than 17,100 miles from Earth when it zips past next Friday. 'No Earth impact is possible,' said Donald Yeomans, manager...
  • FirstEnergy, citing regulations, to retire six coal-fired power plants

    01/26/2012 11:02:11 AM PST · by EBH · 30 replies · 3+ views
    elp.com ^ | 1/26/12
    Akron, Ohio, January 26, 2012 — FirstEnergy Corp. generation subsidiaries will retire six older coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland by September 1, 2012. The decision to close the power plants is based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, which were recently finalized, and other environmental regulations. The total capacity of the competitive plants that will be retired is 2,689 MW. Recently, these plants served mostly as peaking or intermediate facilities, generating, on average, about 10 percent of the electricity produced by the company over the past three years. The following plants...
  • Asteroid YU55 radar images

    11/07/2011 10:35:18 PM PST · by djf · 35 replies
    Closest approach to be 3:28 PST Tuesday afternoon.