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Leonid Meteor Shower peaks Tuesday, best view in pre-dawn. Could be mediocre, could be really good.
4:31 PM Nov 16th
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Shuttle Atlantis launched safely carrying 30,000 pounds of replacement parts for ISS, enough for an oil change and a tune up.
12:09 PM Nov 16th
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Space shuttle Atlantis launch on target for 2:28:10 p.m. EST, i.e., about an hour from now.
10:27 AM Nov 16th
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Back from the ashes: this week we at The Planetary Society announced we will fly 3 solar sail missions. Check
12:34 PM Nov 15th
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@ Sorry for the delayed response. 1 kg is a mass, not a weight, so it doesn't matter whether on Earth or the Moon.
1:39 PM Nov 13th
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NASA's LCROSS announced finding water ice in lunar crater based on last months impact.
1:36 PM Nov 13th
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RT @: Station crew told to go to Soyuz lifeboats during close encounter with space debris tonight.
1:51 PM Nov 6th
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To get 1kg to the surface of Moon, you have to put about 16 kg in low Earth orbit.
1:46 PM Nov 6th
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Living on Mars would be good: you'd be half as old, weigh 38% as much, and get 40 minutes more each day.
4:23 PM Nov 5th
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RT @ Pls consider supporting this truly worthwhile cause:The Planetary Society's Carl Sagan Fund for the Future
9:59 AM Oct 28th
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Asteroids vary from wimpy ex-comet fluff balls to slabs of solid iron/nickel. Variety makes thinking about deflection challenging.
9:54 AM Oct 28th
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At Planetary Society board meeting today. Includes board members @, @, and @.
1:28 PM Oct 23rd
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About 15% of asteroids that come close enough to tell are binary with two triples.
1:26 PM Oct 23rd
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Went to an asteroid deflection workshop. Lots of random space fact fodder.
1:24 PM Oct 23rd
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Nereid has the most elliptical orbit of any moon in the solar system, from 1 million to 9 million kilometers from Neptune.
12:04 PM Oct 15th
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Saturn and its rings would nearly fill the space between the Earth and the Moon.
3:24 PM Oct 14th
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RT @ Can life survive in deep space? Let's send organisms to a Martian moon to find out. (TPS LIFE experiment)
4:50 PM Oct 9th
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My sleepy LCROSS summary: no plume, saw thermal flash and thermal crater, got some spectra. Analyses to come in future.
8:07 AM Oct 9th
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We'll see what they say at 7:00 PDT press conference.
5:08 AM Oct 9th
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Well, a really fun & interesting night at Palomar, despite the distinct lack of plume-age. Amazine scope and adaptive optics and sensors.
5:07 AM Oct 9th
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- Name Dr. Bruce Betts
- Location Pasadena, California, USA
- Bio A planetary scientist giving you fun random space facts and easy astronomy in a short attention span format.
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