1. Forum
    1. Unresolved Threads
  2. Gallery
    1. Albums
    2. Map
  3. Members
    1. Users Online
    2. Team
    3. Search Members
  4. Dollar
  5. Protest Watch
  • Login
  • Register
  • Search
This Thread
  • Everywhere
  • This Thread
  • This Forum
  • Articles
  • Forum
  • Gallery
  • Pages
  • More Options
  1. Gaming and Technology
  2. All about tech
  3. Science

Asteroid studies

  • Rice
  • September 24, 2023 at 8:18 PM

There are 9 replies in this Thread which has previously been viewed 3,078 times. The latest Post (October 14, 2023 at 9:23 AM) was by UK Man.

  • Rice
    Thread Author
    Likes
    2,028
    Posts
    16,381
    • September 24, 2023 at 8:18 PM
    • #1

    From today’s Washington Post:

    A NASA capsule carrying pieces of an asteroid successfully landed in Utah. Scientists will use them to study origins of life.

    OSIRIS-REx sampled the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu so scientists could find clues about the origin of life on Earth, as well as information that might shield the planet from future impacts. Bennu, a 1,640-foot-wide space rock, is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, with one study giving it a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth in September 2182.

  • SpaceNut
    Likes
    443
    Posts
    1,841
    • September 25, 2023 at 3:52 AM
    • #2

    I was watching after the capsule had landed. The effort to get it to the clean room, is mindboggling

  • UK Man
    Likes
    2,832
    Posts
    12,500
    • September 25, 2023 at 11:31 AM
    • #3
    Quote from SpaceNut

    I was watching after the capsule had landed. The effort to get it to the clean room, is mindboggling

    I find the whole thing mindboggling. The distances and timescale involved are hard to comprehend nevermind the fact it arrived and landed safely more or less on time and exactly where it was expected to.

    Here I am still waiting on a letter from the UK posted a couple of months ago!! :D

  • Rice
    Thread Author
    Likes
    2,028
    Posts
    16,381
    • September 26, 2023 at 9:48 AM
    • #4

    The answer, sadly: Argentina.

  • Splinter
    Admin
    Likes
    2,624
    Posts
    15,937
    • September 26, 2023 at 3:41 PM
    • #5
    Quote from UK Man

    I find the whole thing mindboggling. The distances and timescale involved are hard to comprehend nevermind the fact it arrived and landed safely more or less on time and exactly where it was expected to.

    Here I am still waiting on a letter from the UK posted a couple of months ago!! :D

    Would have been quicker to swim over yourself!

    :facepalm:

    A Brit In Buenos Aires

  • Rice
    Thread Author
    Likes
    2,028
    Posts
    16,381
    • October 13, 2023 at 12:40 PM
    • #6

    News flash from the Washington Post just now:

    NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launches, beginning a first-of-its-kind mission to explore a metal asteroid

    “The spacecraft will travel more than 2 billion miles to visit the asteroid 16 Psyche, which is believed to be the remnant core of an ancient planetary body and could be similar to the mostly mysterious core of Earth.“

    Could be fascinating!

  • SpaceNut
    Likes
    443
    Posts
    1,841
    • October 13, 2023 at 7:17 PM
    • #7

    Its good to know that they're not going to send a probe or even a mission to our earth's core. I can only see a catastrophe happening if they did

  • bebopalula
    Likes
    194
    Posts
    320
    • October 13, 2023 at 7:23 PM
    • #8

    Asteroids?

    You can get a cream for that nowadays. Just don't keep it in the bathroom next to the toothpaste. DAMHIKT

  • Bombonera
    Guest
    • October 13, 2023 at 7:32 PM
    • #9

    It's the way you tell 'em bebopalula :D

  • UK Man
    Likes
    2,832
    Posts
    12,500
    • October 14, 2023 at 9:23 AM
    • #10
    Quote from bebopalula

    Asteroids?

    You can get a cream for that nowadays.

    You have to have piles of cash to buy them though.

Thank you for the support!

Beer to be spent?

Donate now via Paypal*

*Forwarding to PayPal.Me

Donation Goal

10% reached

Hosting by Prostack UK.

  1. Privacy Policy
  2. Legal Notice
  3. Contact
Powered by WoltLab Suite™ 6.2.3
Argentina Expats Forum in the WSC-Connect App on Google Play
Argentina Expats Forum in the WSC-Connect App on the App Store
Download