November 24, 2021
twitter.com/nasa/status/1463315612042678279
Technically, the two asteroids the DART is aiming at are a “binary” (they orbit each other).
The BBC’s explanation is pretty good.
They don’t even mention Bruce Willis until the final sentence.
March 27, 2019
OK, not actually glitterspray. Lots of tiny moons. Micromoons?
Exploding out of Bennu, which is an asteroid circling way out near Pluto right now, but will intersect Earth’s orbit in September 2060. And in 2135. And in 2175. And maybe soon again after that.
Doomsayers, prepare yourselves!
(Cumulative 1 in 2700 chance it’ll hit Earth by then. Too bad Bruce Willis won’t be around to save us.)
www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/nasa-bennu-osiris-rex-asteroid/585256/
Love is in the words
A debunking of Daniel Cassidy's theories about the influence of the Irish language on English slang.
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