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"Heard a loud crash, found a hole in the ceiling, smelled a strong sulfur-like odor. " What would you think?
This New Jersey homeowner then carefully collected the meteorite pieces in glass jars. Analysis shows it was once a piece of an ancient, briny world. The type of asteroid that originally brought water and life's building blocks to Earth.
details/images: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Back from a mission to the moon 🌕, astronauts from Artemis II visited UN Headquarters in New York.
They shared an important message for humanity about our shared purpose on Earth. 🌎
Watch and see what the #Artemis explorers had to say.
Start your week with some new photos from Artemis II!
Though our journey around the Moon has ended, we're still retrieving plenty of new images. Keep an eye on our Artemis II multimedia gallery for image highlights from the mission: go.nasa.gov/4usiN8W
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That's an interstellar comet, imaged by a satellite orbiting Mars. You live in the future!
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Happy to share an article just published in @OpenAccessGov - A new era of Lunar exploration: Canada is heading to the Moon openaccessgovernment.org/art… @WesternU @csa_asc @Canadensys1 #Artemis #CanadianRoverMission #ToTheMoon
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Birthday submission count: 2,807,463. 🎂
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Infinite gratitude to the amazing sponsors and exhibitors powering #AstroRob 2025 and every edition before. You make it a first-class networking event every time — thank you for being a part of it! 🌌✨
Sponsors and exhibitors also make #AstroRob conferences possible! Want to be part of this awesome community for the next one in Almería (6-10 Oct)? Check out how to join and support: astrorob.com/sponsors-exhibi…
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Physics. Mathematics. Reality. Universe.
Stephen Wolfram's "Theory of Everything" is free on line, as a 448-page PDF. Here is a sample figure, to intrigue you. Source: arxiv.org/abs/2004.08210
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This has never happened before. Every living former NASA Science Chief united to sign a joint letter to Congress, urging them to reject a devastating 47% cut to NASA’s science budget.
Led by our board member and former NASA Associate Administrator of Science John Grunsfeld, we helped bring this letter to life. Read the full letter here ⬇️ planetary.org/press-releases…
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A view of lightning that's nothing like what we see on the ground: crew observations and instruments on the @Space_Station can help us better understand the behaviors of storms.
Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite.
Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so scientists can use these types of pictures to better understand the formation, characteristics, and relationship of TLEs to thunderstorms.
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ESA's astronomers are actively tracking 3I/ATLAS, which is now the third confirmed interstellar comet to pass through our Solar System!
More info at: esa.int/Space_Safety/Planeta…
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There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood!
Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does provide a rare opportunity to study an object that originated outside of our solar system: science.nasa.gov/blogs/plane…

ALT Diagram showing the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system. Planetary orbits are depicted as colored circles around the Sun, with the comet’s path shown as a white arc entering from the bottom left and exiting toward the top right. Labels mark the orbits of Jupiter, Mars, Earth, and the Sun, with 3I/ATLAS making its closest approach to the Sun in October.
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Replying to @b612foundation
@b612foundation has taken the orbit and uncertainty of asteroid 2024YR4, sampled 10K trajectories from the current uncertainty, and propagated them forward. 2.3% of those hit the Earth on Dec.22, 2032. Here is where they hit.
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☄️ Excited to share our new paper in JGR: Planets @jgrplanets:
"Inferring Fireball Velocity Profiles and Characteristic Parameters of Meteoroids From Incomplete Data Sets"
by myself and @GritsevichMaria
▶️ doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008382
#PlanetaryScience #Meteoroids #Fireballs
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A really great article by @tanyaofmars - Trump’s Space Cuts Should be a Wake Up Call for Canada spaceq.ca/trumps-space-cuts-…
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Moon landing in 6 days! RESILIENCE is orbiting the Moon every 2 hrs, to land on Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold). Rover TENACIOUS to explore & collect samples.
Soft landing to everyone at @ispace_inc!
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Well over $20B in taxpayer, paid for assets being thrown away for a savings that's literally pennies on those dollars. I'm all for shrinking waste and increasing efficiencies in our government, but this is neither. science.org/content/article/…


































