The White House team also added an alien artifact to the shelves of the Oval: a Hacky Sack-sized chunk of the moon.
“I’m so jazzed, as are a lot of my colleagues,” Noah Petro, a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, tells Popular Mechanics . “The first thing everybody wanted to know was ‘Which sample is it?’”
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Astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt (the only geologist to ever visit the moon) and Eugene Cernan collected sample 76015,143 during Apollo 17, the final crewed mission to the moon. Notably, Apollo 17 took place in December 1972, the same month President Biden lost his first wife, Neilia, and daughter, Naomi, in a car accident.
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Astro Bob: Artificial mini-moon, 2020 SO, says hello and then goodbye | Duluth News Tribune
This 1964 photograph shows a Centaur upper-stage rocket, similar to the one that helped launch Surveyor 2 in 1966, before it was joined with the Atlas booster. (NASA)
Surveyor 2 continued to the moon and ultimately crashed near Copernicus crater, while the upper Centaur stage that helped launch the mission blew past the moon and entered into an orbit around the sun, out of sight and out of mind. End of story, right? Fast-forward to Sept. 17, 2020 when the 71-inch (1.8-meter) Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Mt. Haleakala on Maui discovered a new, near-Earth asteroid with the temporary name of 2020 SO.
Lavanda Gayle (Moon) Vickery | Daily Mountain Eagle
Lavanda Gayle (Moon) Vickery, 53, of Nauvoo, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 at Walker Baptist Medical Center.
She is survived by her husband, Jerry Wayne Vickery of Nauvoo; daughters, Alisha Richardson (Justin) and Jessie Blackburn (Brandon) of Nauvoo; sister, Sandy Gaddy (James) of Double Springs; brothers, Kenny Moon of Hueytown and Dion Moon of Nauvoo; grandchildren, Ashton and Ashlyn Richardson, Calder and Tegan Blackburn.
Pallbearers will be Johnny Atkins, David Self, Terry Vickery, Robert Marcum, Eddie Kilgore and Frankie Posey.
Uranus and Mars get close in the night sky tonight | Space
Look up tonight (Jan. 21) to see Uranus and Mars nestled together in the night sky — just don't forget your binoculars.
Yesterday (Jan. 20) on Inauguration Day in the U.S., the two planets were in conjunction, meaning they appeared very close together in the sky. Tonight, the planets will share the same "right ascension," with Mars passing just 1.75 degrees to the north of Uranus, according to Earthsky.org . (Your fist held at arm's length covers about 10 degrees of sky.) The moon will also be shining nearby, making it a good landmark to start from when looking for the planets.
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6 January 2021 Full Moon Do's & Don'ts
Leo is the sign ruled by the sun, meaning it's all about letting your light shine and taking center stage. Don't be afraid to get glamorous and show off. If there's something you're proud of and want the world to see, now's the time to take it to the spotlight. Get yourself glammed up and channel your inner starlet, even if all you do is take a series of sexy selfies. This full moon is about finding your confidence and having fun with it.
Lunar PAD for future Moon missions 3D printed by Students » 3dpbm
A team of undergraduate students from 10 colleges and universities across the United States – members of the Artemis Generation designed a reusable landing pad that could be 3D printed from materials found on the Moon. The novel concept – called the Lunar Plume Alleviation Device, or Lunar PAD – focuses on solving the problems caused when the force of an engine’s powerful exhaust meets the dusty lunar surface.
The design features a series of petal-like channels that send exhaust upward and outward, minimizing the amount of dust lofted during launch and landing. The student team presented a paper on the Lunar PAD concept at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ 2021 SciTech Forum.
Puzzling signal on Saturn's moon Rhea may finally be explained | New Scientist
A mystery on Saturn's moon Rhea may have finally been solved. When NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past the planet's second-largest moon before the end of its mission in 2017, it spotted a mysterious compound. It turns out, that compound may be hydrazine, which is often used in rocket fuel.
As Cassini flew past Saturn's moons, it examined the sunlight bouncing off their surfaces to determine what they are made of. On Rhea, as well as several of the other moons , something on the surface absorbed a portion of that light in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum.
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ICYMI: A reminder of our @NASAArtemis pledge to return to the Moon now sits in the Oval Office. Learn more about th… https://t.co/d7mPSS15M9 NASA Thu Jan 21 23:33:45 +0000 2021
This lunar sample collected by @NASA_Astronauts in 1972 now sits in the Oval Office! 🇺🇸 It's on loan from the Luna… https://t.co/qNC8mdey86 NASA_Johnson (from Houston, TX) Fri Jan 22 01:07:28 +0000 2021
Among the new decorative touches in the Oval Office under Biden is a moon rock brought home by Apollo 17 in 1972. https://t.co/05XUv1nYnT peterbakernyt Fri Jan 22 19:49:49 +0000 2021
The Biden Oval Office contains "a moon rock set on a bookshelf that is intended to remind Americans of the ambition… https://t.co/crqPSqUnzw AstroKatie (from Amherst, MA) Wed Jan 20 23:49:27 +0000 2021
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