Space is vast and lonely. It is perfectly understandable, then, that a little rock would decide to tag along with Earth and the moon on their yearly circumnavigation of the sun.
Said rock, 165 feet long, was discovered in 2016 by Hawaii's Pan-STARRS 1 asteroid-hunting telescope. This eccentric entity's Hawaiian name, (469219) Kamoʻoalewa , means "wobbling celestial object.
Moon With Visible Planets In Marion Oaks - Ocala-News.com
Check out this awesome view of the moon with visible planets nearby over Marion Oaks. Thanks to Quetsy Azam for sharing!
Nasa's Moon return pushed back to 2025 - BBC News
The first Nasa mission since 1972 to put humans on the Moon's surface has been pushed back by one year to 2025.
Few observers expected Nasa to make the previous 2024 date, because of a funding shortfall and a lawsuit over the landing vehicle.
A US federal judge recently upheld a decision by the agency to award the contract to build a lunar landing vehicle for this mission to Elon Musk's company SpaceX.
Look up to see the moon near Jupiter in the night sky tonight. Here's how. | Space
The pair will snuggle up close as the moon appears to slowly pass the gaseous planet, appearing just 4 degrees apart, according to Forbes . (Your clenched fist held at arm's length covers about 10 degrees of sky.)
Skywatchers might also enjoy "shooting stars" in the night sky tonight, as the Taurid meteor shower continues. The annual meteor shower began around Sept. 7 and will stretch through Dec. 10. The event is a result of Earth passing through the trail of debris left behind by Comet 2P Encke.
An Almost Total Lunar Eclipse – Moon: NASA Science
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align so that the Moon passes into Earth’s shadow. In a total lunar eclipse, the entire Moon falls within the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra.
The best viewing will be right around the peak of the eclipse, on November 19th at 9:03 UTC/4:03 AM EDT/1:03 AM PDT. This part of the eclipse is visible in all of North America, as well as large parts of South America, Polynesia, eastern Australia, and northeastern Asia.
To the moon and beyond — one day – Marin Independent Journal
A story in the paper earlier this week informed me — and all of you aspiring astronauts out there — that it was going to be 2025 before NASA is again able to schedule its first moon landing in a half century.
Damn! Now we all have to wait another four years before we can pack up the wife and kids and say, "I got it, honey! Let's go to the moon." That is a term I had always considered a figure of speech.
Lego Education will send astronaut minifigures to the moon with NASA's Artemis 1 mission | Space
The characters "Kate" and "Kyle" from Lego Education's SPIKE Prime system, as well as "Julia" and "Sebastian" from the Lego City toy line, will ride as tiny crewmembers on NASA's Artemis 1 mission launching in February 2022 .
The Artemis 1 mission will test agency's new Space Launch System megarocket and its Orion spacecraft on a trip around the moon, with the quartet of minifigures joining a crew of human avatars including a " Moonikin " and vest-wearing "dummies."
Astro Bob: Hitch a ride with the moon, see the sights | Park Rapids Enterprise
Baked into the bones of astronomy is a simple fact: Nothing ever stops moving. Atom hum inside stars, planets and asteroids spin, and the moon barrels headlong along its orbit every minute of the day like a dog running her heart out.
The half-moon will be in conjunction about 5 degrees south of Jupiter on Thursday night, Nov. 11, 2021, in the constellation Capricornus. It forms a nearly straight line with the planet and the bright star Fomalhaut in the constellation Piscis Austrinus the Southern Fish.
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