Vesta flyby…up close and personal with an asteriod with a 9 mile high mountain…
by CJ | Sep 16, 2011 | Journal | 19 comments
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As usual the link doesn’t work in the post—but they do in the comments: this one should get you there.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-293
Watch out, New Jersey! http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/falling-down-on-new-jersey.html
Ah, yes!
Yesterday’s CBS national news mentioned a discovery of a planet orbiting a pair of stars, but I’ve slept since then and forgotten the name and number, but the ending was B.
It’s called Tattooine. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-292
The official name, IIRC, is Kepler-12(A-B)b, as CJ says, known as Tattooine by everybody but the most diehard professional astronomers.
OK, I’m old, I misremember things. It’s 16, not 12.
q.v. http://news.yahoo.com/planet-star-wars-tatooine-discovered-orbiting-2-suns-181404397.html
The artist’s conception with the planet and stars lining up would make a heck of a book cover. It’s worthy of Chesley himself. (I almost need dark glasses to look at it.)
Somehow I found myself thinking about our favorite miner jocks trying to tag the thing …
Lol—I’m pretty sure one of the big mining companies will have nabbed that one first!
“Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” maybe it WAS tatooine. Who knows?
Speaking of space adventures, “Jedi Kittens Strike Back”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3r9X8OahA
I love it!
Oh neat, thanks! Huh, two stars in a swirling dance.
Loved the Jedi kittens.
that reminds me of a great video I saw a few years ago: free range studios made it ( stellar work and causes:)…
storewars.org I think is the site/ link, but is also on youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVrIyEu6h_E
there is also a matrix spoof meatrix.com
several others too, but I think those are the best;)
Oh my goodness but Grocery Store Wars was funny!
“Search your peelings, Cuke…” Loved the video, horsewisevt!
Have you seen the aurora fly-over movie on SpaceWeather?
Wow!
Movie special effects have come a long way, but
real life can be far more surreal and beautiful.
http://spaceweather.com/swpod2011/22sep11/media.mp4?PHPSESSID=12vqq5pmbm2b8lelcpq1i0jet5