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NASA Moon ROCKS!

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

NASA Scientists to Open Special Package March 9

NASA plans to open a special package today as it prepares for the return to the moon.

It’s an exciting event – 50 years in the making – the opening of one of the last sealed and pristine Moon rocks from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. NASA’s been saving the samples all these years because the agency figured science and technology would improve over the years and allow scientists to study the rocks in new ways and address new questions in the quest to put humans back on the Moon. NASA hopes to make that happen in 2025. Carmen Roberts. Fox News.

You can listen to NASA’s presentation — The Moon ROCKS! Apollo to Artemis — on Twitter Wednesday, March 9. It starts at 6:30PM ET on @TwitterSpaces.

Christmas Asteroid Fly By

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

An asteroid the size of two football fields is set to pass by Earth today. 

The giant asteroid should be at its closest to Earth around 3:20 p.m. Eastern time.

The giant space rock will zip by our planet this afternoon at a speed of around 22-thousand miles an hour. NASA says the asteroid, dubbed 501647, will come within 1.9 million miles of Earth. Scientists say that’s a close fly by because any object that makes it within about 4.5 million miles is considered “potentially hazardous.” A much smaller asteroid will also fly by today but it won’t get as close. Only about 3.5 million miles from us. Carmen Roberts. Fox News.

2020’s Biggest Meteor Shower

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

The December skies will be filled with lots of shows including the Geminid meteor shower
which starts the night of December 4.

The Geminids will peak overnight between December 13 and 14.

Look up tonight and you may see the annual Geminid meteor shower which will last through the 17th. NASA says this year’s show in space will be brighter because it coincides with a nearly new moon, making the skies even darker.

The Geminids arrives each year as the Earth plows through the debris left in the orbit of an asteroid known as Phaethon or what NASA says could actually be a burnt-out comet. For the best view find a spot away from bright city lights and then just look up. Carmen Roberts. Fox News.

You can catch another show on December 21 when Jupiter and Saturn appear so close they will seem to be “one” in the night sky. They won’t make this great conjunction again until 2080.