Saturday, January 25, 2020

Scientist says aliens in UFOs might be Earthlings from the future

Michael Masters, a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University in Butte, thinks that could be because UFOs are piloted by humans from the future, not aliens from another planet.

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For countless people, the existence of UFOs is undeniable. Many experts, including those who've analyzed recently released footage from the US Navy, are convinced that at least some reports of flying objects of unknown origin throughout history are true.

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Mysterious lights seen over northeast El Paso were military flares, not UFOs - KVIA

EL PASO, Texas -- It's a bird, it's a plane... it's a UFO? No, it's just a U.S. Army training exercise organized out of Fort Bliss.

Military officials told ABC-7 on Tuesday that recent sightings of mysterious lights over the northeast El Paso skies at night had a very simple explanation - and one that doesn't involve extraterrestrials.

"The lights seen this past weekend are artillery flares," explained Gilbert Telles Jr., a public affairs specialist at Fort Bliss. "A unit had been training that early evening at the Doña Ana training ranges."

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Date: 2020-01-21T22:09:15-07:00
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As 'Project Blue Book' returns, History channel's UFO content blossoms | Fortune

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Are the Mystery Colorado Drone Swarms Lingering Near Nuclear Missile Silos?

Those who see them say they appear in the night sky, often several at a time, their locations marked by the light they emit. Audibly buzzing, they hover and maneuver in precise formations.

"The group is not going to discuss the details of its inner workings, and is not planning to provide incremental updates on its activities," Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson based in Los Angeles, told The Daily Beast. "But we will inform the public about any important developments."

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Date: 2020-01-20T09:41:35.760Z
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Navy Officers Say 'Unknown Individuals' Made Them Erase Evidence of 2004 UFO Encounter | Space

Several Navy officers who witnessed the now-famous Nimitz UFO encounter in 2004 say "unknown individuals" showed up after the event and made them turn over data recordings and videos, according to Popular Mechanics .

Five Navy veterans recently spoke to Popular Mechanics about what they experienced at the time. The veterans were part of the Navy's Strike Carrier Group 11 and were sailing on the USS Princeton on a training mission prior to their upcoming deployment in the Arabian Sea.

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We finally know what happens when you bake cookies in space | Space

Follow Chelsea Gohd on Twitter @chelsea_gohd . Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook .

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Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: community@space.com.

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Space Force or Star Fleet?

It's fun to talk about Space Force uniforms and blasting troops into orbit, but the first priority for the new service branch is getting capabilities to warfighters, a top Space Force enlisted leader said.

Chief Master Sgt. John Bentivegna, senior noncommissioned officer for Combined Force Space Component Command and Space Operations Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., spoke to U.S. and Japanese service members Tuesday during a "Space Symposium" at Yokota, home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo.

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Sustainability in Space Travel: How Does Space Exploration Impact the Environment?

The world is abuzz with talks of space exploration. Now, for probably the first time since Apollo 11's historic moon landing, space travel is once again at a fever pitch. 

Virgin Galactic, one of the many companies planning on offering commercial space flights , is set to launch as early as next year. Furthermore, in March, Vice President Mike Pence announced plans to return to the moon by 2024 with a long-term vision of Mars exploration. 

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SpaceX's inflight abort test paves way to commercial human spaceflight | TheHill

It is not every day that a successful test of a rocket involves destroying the launch vehicle in midflight. SpaceX managed the feat during the inflight abort test it conducted Sunday morning. The test was an important milestone in the development of commercial human spaceflight.

The commercial spaceflight company launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a crewed Dragon on top. About 90 seconds into the flight, the Falcon 9's engines switched off. Detecting that an anomaly had taken place, the Crewed Dragon fired its Draco rocket engines, separating it from the Falcon 9. As the Falcon 9 broke apart in midflight, the crewed Dragon soared away in safety. The spacecraft eventually splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean using parachutes.

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Date: 2020-01-20T15:02:02-05:00
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SpaceX Crew Dragon: how the next six months could democratize space travel

After a shaky year for the Crew Dragon, SpaceX's human-carrying capsule finally appears to be firing on all cylinders. The capsule is designed to ferry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station, which could end the agency's current dependence on Russia's Roscosmos facilities. For SpaceX, which has future plans to build a city on Mars and beyond, the capsule could be the first time the company sends a human into space.

For the space industry as a whole, the Crew Dragon's success could commercialize low-Earth orbit and enable more firms to invest. This could open up space further to bold new ideas.

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Lego celebrates 20 years of the International Space Station with an out-of-this-world new model

An out-of-this-world building experience is coming! ????⭐️ The LEGO International Space Station is available February 1st! https://t.co/DZwnyE12EN pic.twitter.com/rcNGTeqC2H

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Lawsuit claims Amazon and freight partner worked truck driver ‘into the ground,’ causing him to crash

Seattle shooting rattles tech companies and raises concerns about safety of city’s urban core

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Astronauts bake chocolate chip cookies in space in historic first - The Jerusalem Post

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Friday, January 24, 2020

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity had an attitude problem. (But it's fine now.) | Space

An attitude problem sidelined NASA's Mars rover Curiosity recently, but the robot's handlers whipped it back into shape in short order.

"Attitude" in this case refers to Curiosity's position in space, and the position of its various parts, such as its instrument-laden robotic arm. Losing attitude knowledge could result in some pretty bad outcomes — for example, bonking that robotic arm into something or mistakenly pointing a camera at the sun, Sumner explained.

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NASA's $2.5B rover is frozen on Mars | Fox News

NASA's Curiosity rover, which celebrated its seventh anniversary on Mars in August and has made several remarkable discoveries, is stuck frozen on the Red Planet.

In a mission update earlier this week, the team operating the rover wrote that Curiosity recently lost its orientation during its last set of activities.

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"Curiosity stores its body attitude in memory, things like the orientation of each joint, which instrument on the end of its arm is pointing down, and how close [Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer] is to the ground," Sumner added.

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Randolph County students studying how to raise chickens on Mars | myfox8.com

RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. -- The popular TV show Star Trek taught us that space was the final frontier. And it appears that frontier isn't so far away after all.

And students at Uwharrie Ridge 6-12 School in Randolph County are hoping to one day help conquer it.

They are studying how to raise chickens on Mars, which is something more on our minds with what other adventurous Americans are doing these days.

"Matt Koci is a poultry science professor at NC State and dreamed up the idea that one day when these sixth graders graduate, Elon Musk says that he's going to put us on Mars," science teacher Sarah Moore said. "Well, currently all the research that is going into us being on Mars is going into plants. Unless we all plan on eating only plants, someone needs to start the wheels growing on these chickens."

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How space tourism can help prepare astronauts for Mars - POLITICO

NASA astronauts Nick Hague (suit with no stripes) and Anne McClain (suit with red stripes) upgrade the International Space Station's power storage capacity during a spacewalk. | Mark Garcia/NASA

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Space tourism is often seen as an opportunity for the wealthy to reach the stars. But sending more people to space will also allow scientists to collect far more data more quickly on what will be needed to send humans on a long endurance mission to Mars.

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NASA watched the ice in this Mars crater dance over a dozen years - CNET

You might think Mars is a pretty static place since it's lacking the oceans and atmospheric drama we have on Earth. But the dry Red Planet is surprisingly dynamic, as a new NASA GIF of a north-pole crater shows .

The animation comes from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRise (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera team at the University of Arizona.

"These inter-crater ice deposits shrink and expand or change shape or surface texture from year to year," wrote University of Arizona planetary geologist Alfred McEwen , principal investigator for HiRise.

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Mars To Open Interactive M&M's Stores | PYMNTS.com

As the retail industry faces a string of closures, Mars Retail Group is bucking the trend by growing its M&M's candy stores in the U.S. and around the world by next year. The stores will be located at Minneapolis' Mall of America, Orlando's Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort and in Berlin, Germany, Fox Business reported.

The stores will showcase interactive features such as a wall of chocolate for customers to personalize M&M's bags, appearances by characters such as Red, and customization options like getting a photo printed on the confections. In addition, the stores will offer virtual reality experiences that will be switched out every couple of months.

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An all-woman Mars analog crew just 'returned to Earth' in Hawaii | Space

KONA, Hawaii — An all-female crew of analog astronauts have "returned to Earth," completing a two-week mission in a mock Mars habitat on the big island of Hawaii.

Six scientists entered the HI-SEAS habitat (the name is short for Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) — an analog Mars base for human researchers that sits on a remote slope of the Mauna Loa volcano — on Jan. 4. On Saturday (Jan. 18), at about 4 p.m. local time (9 p.m. EST/0200 GMT ), they emerged from the habitat through an airlock, completing the simulation.

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The Downlink: Crew Dragon Completes Crucial Test, More Mars Mole Problems | The Planetary Society

SpaceX completed the last major flight test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, demonstrating the capsule’s ability to safely separate from its rocket in the event of an emergency. The test began with a Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon blasting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After a minute and a half of flight, SpaceX intentionally shut down the Falcon 9’s engines , triggering the capsule’s abort thrusters to fire and pull the capsule away.

The heat-flow probe known as the mole aboard NASA’s InSight lander on Mars once again backed itself out of its hole while attempting to descend into the martian soil. Scientists and engineers have been trying to bury the mole since March 2019; it can’t function for scientific measurements until the entire mole is underground, and was designed to work best at a depth of more than 3 meters. A lack of friction with the sides of the hole is believed to be the cause.

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Astronomers just got a deep peek at a black hole

A thick accretion disk swirls around the maw of a supermassive black hole in an illustration. Flashes of x-ray light from the disk create "echoes" that scientists can use to map its inner structure beyond what any telescope can directly observe.

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In an enormous effort that stunned the world, scientists last year unveiled the first direct picture of a black hole , allowing humans to see what exists at the cusp of the monster's maw. Now, astronomers have used a different technique involving x-ray "echoes" to peer even closer at one of these gravitational behemoths.

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What are black holes? | Space | EarthSky

The 1st-ever direct image of a black hole, released by scientists in April 2019. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around this black hole, which is 6.5 billion times more massive than our sun. This black hole is located in the center of the galaxy M87, 55 million light-years from Earth. Image via Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration .

A black hole is an area of space with a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it. That’s why black holes appear black. In some cases, black holes are former massive stars that have been crushed to an extreme density during supernova explosions. In other cases, black holes contain the mass of millions or billions of stars.

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Date: 2020-01-11T07:00:46-06:00
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'Giant, shape-shifting stars' spotted near Milky Way's black hole | Science | The Guardian

A number of bizarre shape-shifting objects have been discovered close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

The blobs are thought to be giant stars that spend part of their orbits so close to the black hole that they get stretched out like bubble gum before returning to a compact, roughly spherical form.

"These objects look like gas and behave like stars," said Andrea Ghez, a professor of astrophysics at the University of California Los Angeles and a co-author of the paper.

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Astronomers use 'cosmic echolocation' to map black hole surroundings

As material spirals towards a black hole, it is heated up and emits X-rays that, in turn, echo and reverberate as they interact with nearby gas. These regions of space are highly distorted and warped due to the extreme nature and crushingly strong gravity of the black hole.

Now, researchers have used the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory to track these light echoes and map the surroundings of the black hole at the core of an active galaxy. Their results are reported in the journal Nature Astronomy .

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Drag racing and black hole physics | symmetry magazine

The silver Mustang was fishtailing, its back wheels losing traction and spinning out on the wet pavement of the New England Dragway. 

On a cold and damp October night at the quarter-mile racetrack in the small town of Epping, New Hampshire, Joseph Farah was careening at over 100 miles per hour when he lost control of the car. 

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For several days Farah had been wracking his brain about the technicalities of how dark shadows form at the middle of black holes. The project was the culmination of his first deep dive into black hole theory and involved quite a bit of complex thinking. 

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Black hole discovery: Space anomaly lets astronomers find millions of black holes | Science |

But a team of astronomers in Poland could be on the verge of revolutionising black hole discoveries thanks to an anomaly known as Gaia16aye.

Gaia16aye is a binary star system where a star about half the mass of the Sun is joined by an even smaller star.

According to Dr Łukasz Wyrzykowski of the University of Warsaw’s Astronomical Observatory, the binary system is too faint to be seen from Earth.

But the astronomer and his colleagues have used so-called gravitational microlensing to observe the stars for the very first time.

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Date: 2020-01-24T13:41:00 00:00
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Four strange new objects found around the Milky Way's huge black hole | Astronomy.com

Astronomers have discovered four new and mysterious objects orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. The bizarre objects look a lot like common clouds of gas and dust, but they surprisingly manage to stay compact like stars as they run laps around our galaxy's gargantuan black hole.

The quartet of new objects share striking similarities with two others, dubbed G1 and G2, that were found in the past 15 years or so. This has led researchers to conclude the four new bodies likely belong to the same class of objects as G1 and G2, which are simply referred to as G-sources or G-objects.

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"Black Hole Enigma" --Could the Discovery Be a Massive Neutron Star? | The Daily Galaxy

Home » Astronomy » “Black Hole Enigma” –Could the Discovery Be a Massive Neutron Star?

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Our knowledge of black holes has grown exponentially since Princeton quantum physicist John Wheeler first named these enigmatic monsters in 1967, observing that “the laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but." Observations have shown that stellar black holes typically have masses of about ten times that of the Sun, in accordance with the theory of stellar evolution.

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

NASA reveals the payloads for the first commercial Moon cargo deliveries – TechCrunch

Besides those two payloads, everything else on either lander is unique to one vehicle or the other. Astrobotic is carrying more, but its Peregrine lander can hold more cargo — its payload capacity tops out at around 585 lbs, whereas the Nova-C can carry a maximum of 220 lbs. The full list of what each lander will have on board is available below, as detailed by NASA .

Overall, NASA has 14 contractors that could potentially provide lunar payload delivery services through its CLPS program. That basically amounts to a list of approved vendors, who then bid on whatever contracts the agency has available for this specific need. Other companies on the CLPS list include Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and more . Starting with these two landers next year, NASA hopes to fly around two missions per year each year through the CLPS program.

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Chang'e 4 Team Just Released Beyond Amazing New Pics of Our Moon's Far Side

As part of the mission, the lander and rover have been taking photos. Oodles of photos. It's been a photostravaganza. And the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program has just released a new batch of data from the mission's instruments, after amassing an image library of thousands of files.

In addition to radar and infrared spectrometry data, the release includes high-resolution images of the lunar surface from Chang'e 4's landing camera and terrain camera, and Yutu 2's panoramic camera.

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The Emotional Meaning Of The January 2020 New Moon Is Revolutionary

The first new moon of the decade has arrived and the timing couldn't be better. Nothing is coincidence and neither are any of the tragedies happening all around the world. The emotional meaning of the January 2020 new moon in Aquarius is both healing and incredibly revolutionary.

As you may know, the new moon phase represents the beginning of a lunar cycle. This occurs when the moon sits between the earth and the sun, and the sun sheds light on the dark side of the moon, which is the side you never get to see. This is precisely why the moon's invisible — as seen from earth — during the new moon phase.

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China releases huge batch of amazing Chang'e-4 images from moon's far side | Space

And those of us here on Earth can take a new look through the lander's and rover's lunar eyes, as China released a huge batch of data on Monday (Jan. 20). The data release includes high-resolution images of the moon from the Chang'e-4 lander's terrain camera and the panoramic camera on the Yutu-2 rover. 

Chang'e-4 just reached the first anniversary of its historic landing in Von Kármán Crater, within the gigantic South Pole-Aitken basin . The newly published photos cover nearly a year of pioneering exploration on the far side of the moon, where no previous mission has landed.

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Tesla to $6,000 and SpaceX to the Moon?

The Hottest Tech Mega-Trend of All                  

Last year, it generated $24 billion in global revenues. By 2020, it's predicted to blast through the roof to $77.6 billion. Famed investor Mark Cuban says it will produce ""the world's first trillionaires,"" but that should still leave plenty of money for regular investors who make the right trades early.

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2020 moon schedule: 13 full moons with 2 supermoons and a blue moon

According to timeanddate.com , the first full moon of the year was the afternoon of Jan. 10. I actually recall my son pointing it out to me about 3 p.m. that day. I could barely see it beyond the cloudy Michigan sky, but it was there.

The month of October 2020 alone is supposed to include to full moons with second of the two being a blue moon on Oct. 31 -- a Saturday Halloween blue moon! Too bad it's supposed to be visible at 10:51 a.m.

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We will get a look at consecutive supermoons (also called super full moons) with the first on March 9 (1:47 p.m.) and the second on April 7 (10:35 p.m.). Obviously that April 7 time is much preferred. Let's hope for a clear night sky.

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Could future moon homes be made of fungi? | Human World | EarthSky

For future homes on the moon, Mars, and other worlds, NASA is exploring technologies that would use mushrooms to grow self-repairing, self-replicating habitats.

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Instead of building future moon structures of metal and glass, NASA is exploring technologies that could grow structures out of fungi for future habitats on the moon, Mars and other worlds.

A fungus is a group of organisms, including mushrooms and molds, that produces spores and eats up organic material. NASA researchers are investigating the potential of mycelia – the nutrient-absorbing, underground threads that make up a fungus’s main bulk – to help construct outposts on the moon and Mars. These tiny threads build complex structures with extreme precision, networking out into larger structures like mushrooms.

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Date: 2020-01-22T05:49:01-06:00
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An asteroid traveled from beyond Mars to explode over Earth - CNET

Peter Brown, a meteor scientist and planetary astronomer with the University of Western Ontario, reported some details on a particularly dramatic fireball that was spotted Tuesday night streaking across skies to the west of Toronto, toward the Great Lake's southeastern shores.

All-sky cameras at the university caught the bright meteor at 8:52 p.m. ET, moving slowly and nearly as luminous as the full moon:

Meteor particles as small as pebbles or motes of dust can burn bright enough when they collide with our atmosphere to be seen from the ground. In the case of this fireball, Brown estimates the hunk of material was significantly larger -- perhaps the size of a softball.

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Asteroid approach: NASA tracks a 25,433mph asteroid approaching Earth - Will it hit?

NASA’s astronomers have dubbed the asteroid’s arrival an “Earth close approach”.

Asteroid BB1 is a so-called near-Earth object or NEO, meaning its orbit around the Sun comes close to our planet.

Trapped in the inner rings of the solar systems, NEOs are all comets and asteroids that orbit the Sun from a distance of no more than 1.3 astronomical units.

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As proven by the Chelyabinsk meteor incident in 2013, NEOs will occasionally crash into our planet.

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Date: 2020-01-23T08:16:00 00:00
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Asteroid news: 200 asteroids dubbed greatest collision risk spark 'deep concern' |

He told the Joe Rogan Experience in 2019: “I don’t think preparation has been made and it’s very clear that preparation is not being made for the risk of another cosmic impact.

“A point that I’d like to make about this is that we are, in a sense, in a place where history can repeat itself, there are certain cycles at work.

“The work on the comet impact 12,800 years ago has very clearly and specifically identified the debris trail of that comet and that is the Taurids meteor stream.

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Date: 2020-01-23T14:14:00 00:00
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An asteroid was found closer to the sun than Venus for the first time | Science News

For the first time, an asteroid has been found orbiting closer to the sun than Venus — a neighborhood where asteroids are thought to be rare and tricky to find. 

The space rock, designated 2020 AV2, orbits the sun once every 151 days along an elongated trajectory that keeps it between the orbits of Mercury and Venus. Such asteroids — known as Vatiras — were first predicted in 2012 , but until now, no one had ever found one.

Asteroid 2020 AV2 was found January 4 by researchers at the Palomar Observatory in southern California. Following an alert by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center , observers around the world confirmed and refined the asteroid's orbit.

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The Evidence is Leaning More and More Towards an Asteroid Ending the Dinosaurs - Universe Today

When it comes to the extinction of the dinosaurs, science has whittled it down to those two possibilities. The asteroid strike has been the leading candidate for quite some time now, but those darn volcanoes refuse to stand down.

A new study is presenting even more evidence that it was the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, and not volcanoes.

The asteroid strike is known as the Chicxulub impact event in the Yucatan in modern day Mexico. That asteroid is estimated at between 11 to 81 kilometers (6.8 to 50.3 miles) in diameter. It blasted out a crater about 150 kilometers (93 miles) in diameter and 20 kilometers (12 miles) deep.

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Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Inside Venus for the First Time | Digital Trends

Most of the asteroids in our solar system orbit around the sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, or in a cluster in the same orbit as Jupiter called the Trojans. Plus, there are asteroids that come close to the orbit of Earth, called Near-Earth asteroids . But now, for the first time, an asteroid has been discovered orbiting entirely inside Venus.

Astronomers from Caltech’s Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) observed the asteroid, called 2020 AV2, as part of a small class of asteroids called Atira. These bodies orbit within Earth, but only 2020 AV2 orbits within Venus.

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Date: 2020-01-19T06:44:37-08:00
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Asteroid approach: NASA tracks a large rock heading past Earth at 37,000MPH - Will it hit?

At this rate, the US space agency said Asteroid BP will close in on the planet around 5.14pm GMT (12.14pm EST).

Asteroid BP is an Apollo-type rock trapped on an orbit that crosses paths with Earth’s own path around the Sun.

NASA’s systems have pegged it down as an NEO or Near-Earth Object, meaning it can come incredibly close to Earth.

The US space agency said: “As they orbit the Sun, NEOs can occasionally approach close to Earth.

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Date: 2020-01-21T07:35:00 00:00
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Astronomers Spot First Asteroid Nearer to the Sun Than Venus | Smart News | Smithsonian

By and large, asteroids have a tough time getting much closer to the sun than the approximate orbit of Earth. That’s what makes 2020 AV2 so special. This intrepid asteroid, first detected on January 4 by researchers at the Palomar Observatory in California, is now officially the first of its kind known to revolve around the sun within the orbit of Venus.

2020 AV2’s tight-knight tango with the sun also earns the asteroid a few more noteworthy titles. Apart from Mercury, no other natural object in our solar system is known to have a smaller aphelion—the point at which an orbiting body is farthest from the sun. Capable of completing a lap around its star in just 151 days, the space rock also has the shortest known orbital period of any asteroid documented thus far, Masi writes in a statement .

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Author: Katherine J Wu
Twitter: @smithsonianmag
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