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In December the samples captured by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 mission landed back to Earth. Now, the secrets locked away inside reveal tantalising clues about the early solar system. Dr Jonti Horner beams in to explain… The post Asteroid Ryugu Sample Reveals Clues To The Early Solar System appeared first on Trekzone.
In our dark skies, THAT conjunction - between Jupiter and Saturn - is still visible (weather permitting) in the evenings between 5pm and 6pm .....both are joined by Mercury and the Moon around January 9th, before each go behind the Sun, on the 29th and 24th respectively .....Venus is still visible in the mornings ...and the Quadrantid Meteor Shower peaks on the 3rd/4th January - often overlooked, but probably the third best one of the year. The music break is Hotel California by The Eagles And in space news ..... the total collapse of the Arecibo telescope .... Japanese Hayabusa 2 has brought valuable material from Asteroid Ryugu ....Chinese Chang'e 5 has brought a significant amount of rock back from the Moon ..... and Howard discusses the SpaceX spectacular test launch of Starship SN8 - there was a problem with the final landing, but this shouldn't detract from the fact that the spacecraft used a new technique for re-entry which was a total success.
We never get tired of Einstein being right, and once again his general theory of relativity is up to the challenge. The astroquarks take you on a tour to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way for another test of Einstein's theory of gravity, while closer to home the Japanese Hayabusa-2 mission has successfully grabbed some more asteroid rubble. Dr. Zoe Landsman, aka Beauty Astroquark, joins Josh and Jim on this walkabout with spaceships being propelled by sunlight, nerd news, and Apollo trivia.
This month in the news: the Japanese Hayabusa 2 probe, Israel's Beresheeft lunar craft, and a fond farewell to Opportunity.
In this Episode we talk about Microsoft's surface event, Windows 10 deleting files, Elon Musk, Tesla, china hack, more net neutrality, exomoons, Japanese Hayabusa 2 asteroid rovers, into the Spider-Verse, The Mandalorian, Nintendo Switch, Civilization VI, Maple Story 2, and new October game releases.
It would take a falcon huge episode to cover all the space news this month, so the astroquarks take a crack at it. From Space-X's latest plans for a crewed lunar flyby mission to the Japanese Hayabusa-2 mission's landers on the asteroid Ryugu, to the latest news about the missing matter in the universe, this episode has it all. It's falcon huge.
Project Manger Junichiro Kawaguchi celebrates the arrival at asteroid Itokawa, with further insights provided by former JPL Director Bruce Murray. Q&A on ice volcanoes, and a new trivia contest on What's Up.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices