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We have to confess that we occasionally send friends a link to “let me Google that for you” when they ask us something that they could have easily found online. …read more Continue reading How Big is the Moon? Figure it out Yourself
Astronomers have discovered the first known quadruple asteroid system. A team from Thailand and France spotted a third moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid Elektra, moving the object into the record books.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: A… Continue reading First quadruple asteroid discovered in the solar system
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: On March 4, a human-made piece of rocket detritus will slam into the moon. But it turns out that it is not, as was previously stated in a number of reports, including by The New York Times, E… Continue reading China, Not SpaceX, May Be Source of Rocket Part Crashing Into Moon
It turns out the rocket that is predicted to impact the Moon on March 4 is not the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after all, but the upper stage of a Chinese Long March 3C used to launch the Chang’e 5-T1 lunar flyby mission in 2014.Continue R… Continue reading Rocket heading for Moon collision was launched by China, not SpaceX
This true story of a hammer, a feather, the Apollo 15 mission, and the answers to humanity’s oldest questions about how stuff falls. From a report: Does a falling object move at a constant speed, or does it speed up? If you drop a heavy object and a li… Continue reading The Greatest Physics Demo of All Time Happened on the Moon
Astronomers said this week that a piece of a Falcon 9 rocket that was launched in February 2015 is currently on a trajectory to collide with the moon in just a few weeks. CBS News reports: The rocket left from Florida’s Cape Canaveral and launched NOAA… Continue reading A Piece of a SpaceX Rocket Is On Track To Collide With the Far Side of the Moon
With temperatures plunging to -232 °C (-387 °F), the lunar night is not a friendly place for electronics. Space technology company Masten has developed a new way to tackle this problem in the form of its Nighttime Integrated Thermal and Electricity (NI… Continue reading Innovative chemical heating system keeps lunar landers warm at night
Showing that space junk isn’t a local problem, observations by amateur astronomers have determined that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched in 2015 will impact the Moon on March 4 at 12:25 GMT.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTa… Continue reading Discarded SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the Moon
Astronomers say they have found a second plausible candidate for a moon beyond our solar system, an exomoon, orbiting a world nearly 6,000 light-years from Earth. Scientific American reports: Called Kepler-1708 b-i, the moon appears to be a gas-dominat… Continue reading Astronomers Have Found Another Possible ‘Exomoon’ beyond Our Solar System
“It’s a rock. A small rock,” writes Slashdot reader BeerFartMoron. CBS News reports: China has discovered the explanation for the mysterious “hut” its Yutu 2 rover spotted on the moon late last year. As the lunar rover made a closer approach, a log of … Continue reading China Finds Explanation For ‘Mystery Hut’ Spotted On the Moon