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Friday, May 19, 2023
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
NASA Gears Up to Train Artemis II Crew for Moon Mission
NASA Gears Up to Train Artemis II Crew for Moon Mission: NASA Gears Up to Train Artemis II Crew for Moon Mission
Three of the Artemis II astronauts are active duty military:Captain Reid Wiseman,USN;Captain Victor Glover,USN;and Colonel Jeremy Hansen,Royal Canadian Air Force.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io - planetary science - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech
NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io: The gas giant orbiter has flown over 510 million miles and also documented close encounters with three of Jupiter’s four largest moons.
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Monday, May 15, 2023
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Meteorite Confirmed by The College of New Jersey and Expert Consultant
The object that slammed through the roof of a Hopwell Township,New Jersey home has been confirmed to be a stony chondrite meteorite by physicists of The College of New Jersey and their expert consultant.That means it is a piece of an asteroid that formed in the early solar system.Tests performed included visual examination;scanning electron microscope images;density measurements;and an expert assessment by Jerry Delaney,a retired meteorite expert from Rutgers University and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.*
The Associated Press reported that the Physics Department Chairman,Nathan Magee,said that:
the object is a true chondrite meteorite,in excellent condition,and one of a very small number of similar witnessed chondrite falls known to science.*
Indeed,the space rock was still warm when the Kop family found it in a bedroom.A stony chondrite meteorite is one which has not been modified by either melting or differentiation of the parent body.They are formed when various types of dust and small grains in the early solar system accrete to form primitive asteroids.Embedded in the dust are presolar grains which predate the formation of the solar system and came from elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy.The chondrules,or round grains,from which the meteorite gets its name were molten or partially molten droplets in space believed to have formed when a shock wave passed through the solar system,perhaps a shock wave from the gaseous disk that formed Jupiter,a recent study suggests.*
These meteorites of asteroid origin date back more than 4.54 billion years.They are pieces of small to medium asteroids that were never part of a celestial object large enough to undergo melting and planetary differentiation.
More About the Possible Space Rock That Hit the New Jersey Home
So the Physics Department of The College of New Jersey is going to start the analysis of the suspected space rock that struck a home in Hopewell Township,Mercer County,New Jersey.They will examine it with an electron microscope.What could it be?It could be a piece of an asteroid or comet.It could even be a piece of the Moon or Mars.A few of the rarest meteorites can be worth millions of dollars.The family who owns the home owns the suspected space rock that damaged it.*
Follow up testing could be conducted at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.It's up to the family who owns the object it how far they want to take the analysis.It is extremely rare for a space rock to damage a building.*
Once a meteor strikes a planet or a moon,it is called a meteorite.The largest meteorites cause an impact crater.*
The College of New Jersey is located in Ewing Township,adjacent to the state capital,Trenton.It was founded in 1855 and has over 7,000 students.
Possible meteorite strikes house in New Jersey, police say - FOX 29 Philadelphia
The object,suspected of being a space rock,crashed through the home's roof and ricocheted around a bedroom,causing damage to a hardwood floor.Fortunately,no one was injured.The College of New Jersey is testing it to ascertain its composition and origin.
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