#Asteroid

ToughSF

ToughSf

Asteroid mining is much more plausible than you think: https://youtu.be/y8XvQNt26KI I propose a sequence of events that minimizes the set-up cost while maximizing the returns for processing asteroids, as I will

Maddie Stone

themadstone

If an asteroid was on a collision course with Earth, how should we respond? Well, if we had no warning, probably a bit like they do in season 5 of

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

Did you feel the breeze? A few days ago, the small asteroid 2020 QG passed just 2,950 km above the Earth, the closest near-miss ever recorded!https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-small-asteroid-called-2020-qc-just-gave-earth-the-closest-near-mis

Business Insider India🇮🇳

BiIndia

A car-sized #asteroid flew within 1,830 miles of #Earth over the weekend — the closest pass ever — and we didn't see it cominghttps://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/a-car-size-asteroid-flew-within-1830-miles-of-earth-over-the-w

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

If you need to be transported to small world far, far away, then my oh my you MUST watch these videos of a spaceship hoovering up pieces of an asteroid

Jessica Noviello, Ph.D.

JessicaNoviello

There are literally millions of asteroids that a mission could choose as its target. Why did Hayabusa2 choose asteroid #Ryugu? A thread. Asteroid missions are still relatively new. The first

Jonathan O’Callaghan

Astro_Jonny

So, I'm very excited to share this today!I've been working on this for months, having first had the idea a year ago.It's a 200-year-old cosmic whodunnit, which could reveal the

Sean Raymond

sraymond_astro

David Nesvorny's and my new review is out: "Origin and dynamical evolution of the asteroid belt". It will be published in a book on Ceres and Vesta.Let me go through

✨💞ClaireSoulCoach💫👽

ClaireHY3

Mercury stations Retrograde (Rx) in Aquarius. Saturday, January, 30th at 10.51am EST - 3.51pm GMT.Mercury retrograde is generally associated with communication and technology breakdowns, nervous anxiety, travel delays, and lost

Paul Rincon

rincon_p

With Hayabusa2's TCM-5 engine burn complete, here's a thread with some of my reporting on the mission, ahead of this evening's return of the sample capsule. Hayabusa2 arrived at the

Rhett Allain

rjallain

There are so many great #physics problems in @ExpanseOnPrime #TheExpanse.Here is one for you - could Bobbie really hold two spaceships together? Even with her powered exosuit?https://www.wired.com/story/could-bobbie-hold-two-spaceships-toge

Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

CSERCambridge

Up next on Day 3 of #CCCR2020 is Session 5 “Threats without enemies: natural global disasters and their consequences”, with Doug Erwin @smithsonian @sfiscience and Lindley Johnson @NASA, chaired by

Green Bank Observatory

GreenBankObserv

ARECIBO OBSERVATORY APPRECIATION THREAD LET'S GO 1/ The Arecibo telescope is the world’s third-largest radio telescope, at 307 m (1,007 ft) wide. Unlike the fully-steerable GBT, its dish is

Dr David Boyce

DrDavidBoyce

Amazing - thanks to @Roy_Astro a parcel has arrived. Its contents have travelled millions of miles to get here. What is inside has literally blown my mind. The postman had

the wounded healer ; READINGS open

lunarliteracyx

JT’s APOLOGY (THREAD) . . .transiting asteroid KARMA (3811) conj his ASC! I think now with Saturn in Aquarius, like, @iJaadee said, a lot of celebrities are gonna fall out

Alan Vincent Michaels

AlanVMichaels

#4many N-E-OsChris-to-u-gen-ni-a-ti-ko-pho-bi-a real!Apophis may hitruining Christmas for us allpain-in-asteroid© 2020 Alan Vincent MichaelsThread: https://twitter.com/search?q=%28alanvmichaels%23vsschristmas%23space&exclude%20mentions

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