The one thing that the Covid-19 pandemic, now in its second year, has encouraged very few people to do, when most are despairing, has been to try to re-invent the wheel in the epoch of digitisation.
For many people, the pandemic came like a shock. A depressing shock. Say you were a young kid happily finishing graduation with honours with brilliant prospects for a career in shoe polishing or bio-lab assistant, suddenly, the world goes apeshit. This is not good. Already, due to the bar of low expectation and beer on tap, many people were already on zombie-mode. The pandemic has increased this depressing situation where even looking at one’s navel is deemed to be progressive.
On June 2, 2018, residents in Botswana were shocked to see a huge fireball explode in the sky. In fact, the white glow of the asteroid exploding in the air was so bright that it was about 20,000 times brighter than the full moon. Researchers went to the Kalahari Desert to look for pieces of the asteroid and they found 23 fragments.
Interestingly, the asteroid – which has been named 2018 LA – was spotted by the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey team approximately eight hours before it reached our planet but since it was only six feet across, they didn’t think it was dangerous so they didn’t alert anybody.
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Astronomers Trace 22-million-year Journey Of Asteroid; From Source To Earth
Six-tonne asteroid, estimated to be five-foot (1.5-meter) diameter, weighed about 12,566 pounds (5,700kg), and traveled at around 37,282 mph.
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Scientists, in a first, have been able to trace the 22 million years stunning journey of a solitary meteoroid from the place it originated to the Earth. The entire voyage of the space object in the solar system was charted by the international research team, which consists of the NASA Ames Research Center, scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and Curtin University in Australia, and the SETI Institute in the US. Using NASA s hazardous asteroid-hunting telescopes and the ANU SkyMapper telescope in Australia, researchers traced the asteroid s one-way journey to Earth.
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