All Things Space / Science / Technology

Got my glasses. I'd like to go see it at 100% but just not in the cards at work. I'll settle for 85ish around the burgh.

As much as I'd like to make special plans, I won't be.  If I take the day off, that is the surest way to guarantee there will be thick cloud cover where ever I may be.

Seen one already

Hey I read that they found an exomoon. They should be able to find out a lot of interesting stuff watching that

Cassini: The Dying of the Light



Cassini is no more. At 10:31 according to its own clock, its thrusters could no longer hold its radio antenna pointed at Earth, and it turned away. A minute later, it vaporized in Saturn’s atmosphere. Its atoms are part of Saturn now – the lighter ones high in the atmosphere, the heavier ones (particularly the iridium-clad plutonium dioxide pellets that were, yesterday, in the center of its nuclear power source) likely descended much deeper before melting.

www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2017/0915-cassini-the-dying-of-the-light.html

The earth just got a close shave

TC4 is between 50 to 100ft in diameter and travelling through space at roughly 16,000 mph - 4.5 miles a second. It is past within 27,000 miles of Antarctica.

This may sound like a long way away, yet it’s a short distance in planetary terms and around one eighth of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. It is also just above the distance our satellites orbit.

So, a meteor about the size of a house was close enough to wave hello to satellites 

Very cool

First 3D-Printed Human Corneas Created, Prospect Of Unlimited Supply For Transplants

Woah! Freaky