C|NET: Asteroid 2009 JF1 Won't Smack Into Earth on May 6.
...a space rock the size of the Great Pyramid may hit our planet on May 6, and even that an impact is "likely." That's the kind of message that can get your adrenaline pumping. But don't fear. Asteroid 2009 JF1 won't be ramming into us.
This is just damn sad. I was looking forward to it.
Or, maybe we have to wait seven years. RT: Gigantic, 500ft asteroid to fly past Earth on Monday & come BACK in 7 years.An enormous asteroid (space rock) identified as 2019 VF1 is all set to come dangerously close to Earth on November 25 at around 9.40 AM (IST). (That's right about now. - DD). The space rock measures up to 492 feet in diameter and is officially designated as a "near-Earth object". If hits the Earth [sic], asteroid 2019 VF1 can cause a significant amount of damage and mass extinction.
Asteroid 2019 VF1, which was first discovered this year, will be traveling towards Earth at a staggering 38,498mph i.e. about 63 times faster than the top speed of a Boeing 747 jet. Fortunately, this gigantic space rock will pass Earth with a very wide berth. It is expected that the asteroid will no closer than 3,172,582 miles (5,105,776km). It is the distance about 13 times farther from Earth than the Moon.
NASA has officially registered it as a “near-Earth object” bound to make a “close approach” to our planet. But not too close, the space agency reassured. The asteroid is set to swoosh by at a distance that is around 13 times farther from Earth than the Moon.What if NASA hadn't officially registered the asteroid. Would it matter? "Swoosh by". That's one of those highfalutin NASA terms.
It will return and come close to Earth again on November 2026.
Ultima Thule, the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a spacecraft, has been officially renamed Arrokoth, or "sky" in the Native American Powhatan and Algonquian languages, following a significant backlash over the old name's Nazi connotations.
The icy rock, which orbits in the dark and frigid Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto, was visited by the NASA spaceship New Horizons in January this year, with the first detailed images showing it consisted of two spheres stuck together in the shape of a snowman.
Its technical designation is 2014 MU69 but the New Horizon team initially nicknamed it Ultima Thule (pronounced Tool-ey) after a mythical northern land in classical and medieval European literature described as beyond the borders of the known world.
That name sparked a backlash, however, because it was co-opted by far-right German occultists in the early 20th century as the fabled ancient northern country of the "Aryan" people (the term they used to describe proto-Indo-Europeans).
A Minneapolis man wants to send a strong message [Ohhh! Shssssh! We ALL must listen to this strongly sent message - DD.] about the pollution problem at Lake Hiawatha, and he says multiple groups are to blame.
"I think we're all wrestling with how to address this problem," said Sean Connaughty, the primary artist for this project.
For the last 5 years, Connaughty has tried to solve the pollution problem on Lake Hiawatha.
This year, he and some volunteers removed 350 pounds of trash from the lake.
"The trash is coming from us in our community," Connaughty said.
After sorting through it, he decided to build pieces of art to show the public where the garbage is coming from. The top four companies are Pepsi, Coca-Cola, McDonalds and the Mars Corporation.
"I would love for them to step up and to contribute funding to treat the storm water for Lake Hiawatha," Connaughty said.
Of course it's "tough". It's Rogue and Forbidden!An international team led by astronomers with the University of Warwick in the UK issued an announcement this week that sounds like a summary for a Star Trek episode: "The 'Forbidden' Planet has been found in the 'Neptunian Desert.'"
NGTS-4b is an exoplanet that's 20% smaller than Neptune, but still three times the size of Earth. It's located 920 light-years away from us in an area known as a Neptunian Desert.
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"This planet must be tough -- it is right in the zone where we expected Neptune-sized planets could not survive," said astronomer Richard West, lead author of a paper on NGTS-4b scheduled for the July issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
NASA has warned an asteroid big enough to boast its own mini moon will this week make a near-Earth approach.
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Asteroid 1999 KW4 is actually two objects, consisting of a larger space rock measuring 0.8 mile across (1.3km) and a mini moon orbiting it.
It will only travel as close as 3.2 million miles from Earth, which equals about 13 times the distance between the Earth and the moon, CNET reported.
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The flyby will be visible starting May 24 and last until May 27. If you miss it, you’ll have to wait until 2036 to see it again.
An asteroid purportedly the size of a 10-storey [sic] building will pass by the Earth at half the distance to the Moon, Nasa has warned.We should probably start planning for that, huh?
Asteroid 2019 GC6 will pass within roughly 136,000 miles of Earth on Thursday, safely avoiding a devastating collision. (NASA pees on every parade, don't they? - DD)
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Nasa astronomers warn there is a risk Asteroid 2019 GC6 will collide with Earth in the next 100 years.
A new, first-of-its-kind space weather model reliably predicts space storms of high-energy particles that are harmful to many satellites and spacecraft orbiting in the Earth's outer radiation belt.
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...the model can accurately give a one-day warning prior to a space storm of ultra-high-speed electrons, often referred to as "killer" electrons because of the damage they can do to spacecraft such as navigation, communications, and weather monitoring satellites.
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"...being able to accurately predict space weather has been a goal for a long time. This model is a firm step towards being able to do that," [said Yue Chen, a space scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author of the study].
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"The more research and refinements we do, the increased potential for us to have more reliable forecasts with longer warning time before the arrival of new killer electrons," [said Chen].
According to The Wall Street Journal, United States Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell told the German government in a letter on Friday that allowing Chinese vendor equipment across 5G networks would reduce US cooperation with intelligence agencies in Germany.More - Security Week: Germany will define their own standards, says Merkel.
Grenell pointed out that Chinese law requires Chinese companies to support China's security agencies[.]
"We will define our standards for ourselves," [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel told reporters at a Berlin press conference with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel.- - -
...the FAA is notoriously safety-conscious. Planes in search of an airworthiness certificate must meet stringent standards; the certification process usually takes years. And it gets results: Just one person has died in American airspace on a commercial airplane since 2009. But, it seems, the agency has not yet found reason to ground the new 737.- - -
The car nerds of the internet tend to love them, and because we're a loud bunch, once in a while a manufacturer will take a chance and try to sell one here. Inevitably this lasts a couple of years, few people buy them new, and they go away[.]I'm guessing its uncertain future has to do with the words "station wagon" following "Jaguar".
The lower court did take a couple of shots at Woods during its dismissal of the suit, pointing out he was as uncooperative as possible when the plaintiff, Portia Boulger, tried to serve him.And we would expect no less from Mr. Woods. Congrats!
So far, no evidence has been found of dust-free space, but that's partly because it would be difficult to detect from Earth. No matter how scientists look from Earth, all the dust in between us and the Sun gets in the way, tricking them into thinking perhaps space near the Sun is dustier than it really is.
A man dressed as a car seat to fool pedestrians and drivers into believing his van was driving itself.- - -
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Over time, we've been learning to accept every invasion of privacy, step by step.
Someone knows about every TV show we watch, every place we drive in our car, and every phone call we make, either wire line or wireless.
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- - -The user-activated ActiFresh technology features a high-powered fan that pulls odors from within the bowl through the rim holes, passing the air through a filter for purification. The ActiFresh filter contains active charcoal that captures odor particles — similar to the way an air filter traps dust — catching the elements that cause the unpleasant smell. Fresh air is then released back into the environment, leaving the bathroom smelling fresh and clean.
"We plan to use the network for national defence, finance and other fields," [said Zhou Fei, assistant director of the Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology].
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It will be the world's longest land-based quantum communications network, stretching over 2,000 km.