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The Space Thread
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Rorschach
Sonny Walters
That is fantastic.
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
...until they come looking for you.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56837002
Skygazers will be able to see the Lyrid meteor shower on Thursday morning, with up to 18 meteors per hour expected to light up UK skies.
The shower is due to peak at 13:00 BST on 22 April, but astronomers say the best time to view it will be early morning or after sunset.
Meteor showers, or shooting stars, are caused when pieces of debris, known as meteorites, enter Earth's atmosphere.
The shooting stars are named after the constellation of Lyra the Harp.
Tania de Sales Marques, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said: "Since the peak occurs during the day the best time to try to spot the shower will be before sunrise on the 22nd or after sunset.
"It is expected that this meteor shower will produce around 18 meteors per hour."
But she said the Moon will be bright in the sky because it is at a waxing gibbous phase, "so conditions won't be very favourable".
The meteors are pieces of debris falling from the Thatcher Comet, which is expected to return to the inner solar system in 2276 after an orbital period of 415 years.
Ms de Sales Marques said the Lyrid shower has been observed as far back as 687 BC, which is the oldest known record of any meteor showers still visible today.
"It is a moderate shower with the occasional fireballs, nicknamed the Lyrid Fireballs," she said.
The Lyrid meteor shower happens every year between 16-25 April
Skygazers will be able to see the Lyrid meteor shower on Thursday morning, with up to 18 meteors per hour expected to light up UK skies.
The shower is due to peak at 13:00 BST on 22 April, but astronomers say the best time to view it will be early morning or after sunset.
Meteor showers, or shooting stars, are caused when pieces of debris, known as meteorites, enter Earth's atmosphere.
The shooting stars are named after the constellation of Lyra the Harp.
Tania de Sales Marques, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said: "Since the peak occurs during the day the best time to try to spot the shower will be before sunrise on the 22nd or after sunset.
"It is expected that this meteor shower will produce around 18 meteors per hour."
But she said the Moon will be bright in the sky because it is at a waxing gibbous phase, "so conditions won't be very favourable".
The meteors are pieces of debris falling from the Thatcher Comet, which is expected to return to the inner solar system in 2276 after an orbital period of 415 years.
Ms de Sales Marques said the Lyrid shower has been observed as far back as 687 BC, which is the oldest known record of any meteor showers still visible today.
"It is a moderate shower with the occasional fireballs, nicknamed the Lyrid Fireballs," she said.
The Lyrid meteor shower happens every year between 16-25 April
greatwhitenorf
Edgar Davids
Y'all be careful watching that space schit fall from the sky. As these people well know, stranger things can happen once it lands:
Robbo
Paul Walsh
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...s-rover-extracts-first-oxygen-from-red-planet
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...s-rover-extracts-first-oxygen-from-red-planet
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
I brought this to read today
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
1st Super Moon of 2021
JerusalemMan
Chris Perry
https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-l...entry-following-chinese-space-station-launch/
..this core stage is now also in orbit and is likely to make an uncontrolled reentry over the next days or week as growing interaction with the atmosphere drags it to Earth. If so, it will be one of the largest instances of uncontrolled reentry of a spacecraft and could potentially land on an inhabited area.
Now designated 2021-035B, the roughly 30-meter-long, five-meter-wide Long March 5 core stage is in a 170 by 372-kilometer altitude orbit traveling at more than seven kilometers per second.
Since 1990 nothing over 10 tons has been deliberately left in orbit to reenter uncontrolled. The Long March 5B core stage, without its four side boosters, is thought to have a “dry mass”, or when it is empty of propellant, of about 21 metric tons.
..this core stage is now also in orbit and is likely to make an uncontrolled reentry over the next days or week as growing interaction with the atmosphere drags it to Earth. If so, it will be one of the largest instances of uncontrolled reentry of a spacecraft and could potentially land on an inhabited area.
Now designated 2021-035B, the roughly 30-meter-long, five-meter-wide Long March 5 core stage is in a 170 by 372-kilometer altitude orbit traveling at more than seven kilometers per second.
Since 1990 nothing over 10 tons has been deliberately left in orbit to reenter uncontrolled. The Long March 5B core stage, without its four side boosters, is thought to have a “dry mass”, or when it is empty of propellant, of about 21 metric tons.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
greatwhitenorf
Edgar Davids
This scene was from the first episode of The Expanse. Pretty catchy.
And notice no naughty bits showing.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
greatwhitenorf
Edgar Davids
I'll take two. Park them in high orbit and I'll be up to visit in a century or two.
When the cryo tank rent expires.
