Fedi.Video on PeerTubePlanetary Defenders (2025) (NASA documentary about preventing asteroid strikes on Earth)
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Retro Game Bot🎮 Random Retro Game:
Title: Asteroids (1979)
Released: 1979-11-01
Platforms: Game Boy
Also released on: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Commodore / Amiga, Atari 7800, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit
#Asteroids(1979) #GameBoy #Retrogames
David J. Atkinson@PeteTucker Whether to send people to #space in large numbers is a different question than whether to go to space at all. The answer to the latter is yes. Beyond the plentiful scientific reasons, there are good commercial reasons — rare and valuable resources. Consider #asteroids for example. Carbonaceous Chondrite asteroids contain carbon-based pre-biotic molecules that are extremely valuable in pharmaceutical discovery and various manufacturing processes. The metallic asteroids include large deposits of valuable metals - gold, platinum, titanium. Thousands of “near Earth objects” #NEO are more accessible than any planetary surface. Mining these resources can be done entirely with robotic automation. Thinking about space needs to stretch our imagination more, because we’ll never do things that we do not imagine.
Spaceflight 🚀RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116205018327360404
A reliable technology for returning payloads to Earth from #space 🌌 is a necessity for several futuristic business models — testing new materials in orbit, manufacturing #pharmaceuticals 💊 or high-end #electronics in microgravity, or harvesting resources like metals from #asteroids.
Making satellites reusable ♻️ : "If you want to update a payload component every year, instead of having to build new #satellites 🛰️ and keep those old ones up in space, you can bring them down and go back"
Space.com: NASA, Space Exploration and Astronomy NewsLike 'accelerating from stationary to supersonic flight': Europe's Hera probe boosts speed, stays on course for November asteroid rendezvous
A car-sized asteroid is heading toward Earth for a flyby later tonight: Here's what you need to know
German Virtual ObservatoryNew in the #VirtualObservatory: “Taxonomic classification of asteroids” by Pentikainen H. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/707/A132
#Asteroids #Spectroscopy #GalaxyClassificationSystems #SolarSystem
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/707/A132
#Asteroids #Spectroscopy #GalaxyClassificationSystems #SolarSystem
New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Lightcurve inversion modeling with GaiaDR3” by MacLennan E.M. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/707/A131
#Asteroids #VisibleAstronomy #SolarSystem #Photometry
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/707/A131
#Asteroids #VisibleAstronomy #SolarSystem #Photometry
Metin Seven 🎨Let me guess… Those weapons can probably also be used for human (space) warfare. 😏
#space #asteroid #asteroids #earth #amazon #BlueOrigin #astronomy
JoelBennu’s boulders contain the building blocks of life. Analysis of the samples returned by OSIRIS-REx found water-bearing minerals and carbon-rich material — key ingredients for life as we know it.
- The Planetary Society