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Posted by BeauHD on Saturday November 04, 2023 @05:00AM from the hide-and-seek dept.
During a close flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered a mini moon a mere one-tenth-of-a-mile (220 meters) in size. For comparison, Dinkinesh is barely a half-mile (790 meters) across. The Associated Press reports: NASA sent Lucy past Dinkinesh as a rehearsal for the bigger, more mysterious asteroids out near Jupiter. Launched in 2021, the spacecraft will reach the first of these so-called Trojan asteroids in 2027 and explore them for at least six years. The original target list of seven asteroids now stands at 11. Dinkinesh means “you are marvelous” in the Amharic language of Ethiopia. It’s also the Amharic name for Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in the 1970s, for which the spacecraft is named.
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And they’re going to call it. ( Score: 2)
by greytree ( 7124971 ) writes:
Re:And they’re going to call it. ( Score: 4, Funny)
by jfdavis668 ( 1414919 ) writes: on Saturday November 04, 2023 @06:40AM ( #63979200)
I will name it Mini-Moon
A news site providing the original measurements ( Score: 2)
by evanh ( 627108 ) writes:
Shock-horror, the sky is falling!
Been a nice surprise how common doubles are. ( Score: 3)
by Eunomion ( 8640039 ) writes: on Saturday November 04, 2023 @07:28AM ( #63979244)
For whatever reason, they hadn’t really predicted that. Makes sense in retrospect though.
Nothing new about moons of asteroids ( Score: 4, Insightful)
by Latent Heat ( 558884 ) writes: on Saturday November 04, 2023 @08:45AM ( #63979370)
There is nothing new about moons of asteroids. Their existence had been predicted by Tom Van Flandern, who advanced an “exploding planet” explanation for the orbits of comets. Early confirmation of moons of asteroids from lunar occultation observations was regarded as sketchy, but hard confirmation (of asteroids having moons, not exploding planets) came later from spacecraft fly by photos. I read Van Flandern’s Dark Matter, Missing Planets, Missing Comets. Interestingly, the Astronomy library here at the U has a copy, but the book is replete with fringe science that had resulted in Van Flandern being “separated” from his position at the US Naval Observatory. To my reading of this book, Van Flandern had good explanations of what is possible and what is if possible highly unlikely in orbital mechanics, especially mechanisms by which asteroids might be captured as moons by planets. The moons of Mars as well as the smaller moons of Jupiter are hypothesized to be captured asteroids, but capture of an isolated asteroid from the standpoint of orbital mechanics is an exceedingly unlikely event. Much more likely is the capture of an asteroid from a small swarm of asteroids, maybe even a binary pair of asteroids, where the encounter of multiple bodies with the gravitational field of a planet can result in one of the bodies being captured and the remaining bodies being flung away, accounting for where all the angular momentum went. Or at least that is my short summary, otherwise, one can read his book. There are a number of mysteries about the Solar System, including how asteroid-like bodies can be captured as moons, let along enter nearly circular orbits around a planet, the unstable orbit of Phobos that will crash it into Mars in a 100 million years, the retrograde orbit of a moon of Neptune, the more-than-90 deg inclination of the rotation axis of Uranus along with the orbital plane of its moons, the stable Neptune-crossing orbing of Pluto, the Oort Cloud comets where it is unlikely that they formed out in that sparse expanse and others. Van Flandern even questions the accretion of planets from asteroidal bodies in the early Solar System because of the tendency of bodies in similar, circular orbits to encounter each other with a square-dance do-si-so rather than smash into each other. Now mainstream science has been chipping away at least some of these questions with a hypothesis that the “planetoids” from which the planets accreted before the Solar nebula fully dissipated. The combination of gravity and gas dynamics allowed considerable migration of the orbits of even large Jupiter-sized bodies, so where an object is right now doesn’t have to be where it formed. A lot of this science has been driven by the discovery of the “hot Jupiters” orbiting close to other stars. Now you can pick apart my summary of what I call unanswered questions about the Solar System, but one can read Van Flandern’s book to find out what concerns he raised and debunk them directly rather than my paraphrasing. What I am trying to say is that his work appears to start on a scientific foundation, especially on what was known at the time before the discovery of the “hot Jupiter” exoplanets and the resulting advances in theories of planetary formation to explain them. From there, Van Flandern dives deeper and deeper into pseuo-scientific speculation. He offers an interesting observation that the orbits of comets show an “explosion signature” seen in the debris of exploded upper stage rockets in Earth orbit. In his role at the Naval Observatory, he probably knew a lot about the orbits of fragments of upper-stage rockets. It is the business of Naval Observatory and other government agencies to know about the hazards to crewed and un-crewed spacecraft from “space junk.” So if he wrote that the comet orbits show an “explosion signature”, I will go with that he knew what he was talking about. But it is a leap from this explosion signature to claim this proof of a very implausible event, na
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Four-time GRAMMY winner Sarah Jarosz has announced her new album, Polaroid Lovers. The record is set for release on January 26th, 2024 via Rounder Records. To mark the occasion she has shared the album opener, “Jealous Moon,” and its companion video. The song finds Jarosz backed by a decidedly more electric band, with her Texas lilt as clear and evocative as ever. Polaroid Lovers is available for pre-order today digitally and on vinyl with gray, lavender, orange and green splatter variants. Indie retailers will also have a special blue and green splatter vinyl. For more information visit https://store.sarahjarosz.com/
Sarah Jarosz on “Jealous Moon” I wrote this song with Daniel Tashian in Monteagle, TN on a screened in porch with birds chirping all around. It was a warm summer afternoon. It started as a quiet melody on ukulele and nylon string guitar, but when we got to the studio it became something much more powerful. It’s a song about the times when the parts of ourselves that we try to keep hidden rise to the surface and we have no choice but to ride the wave. Sometimes that means doing your own thing to figure it out so you can emerge stronger on the other side. It’s not about the end of a relationship, but rather a moment of self reflection and a promise to keep showing up even when things get tough. Once Daniel played the opening riff on piano I knew it had to open the album. I’m always seeking to push myself into new sonic territory, and this song gave me permission to not hold back.
The seventh album from Sarah Jarosz finds the highly decorated songwriter at the apex of change. A Texas native, she’s spent most of her adult life living in New York City, but shortly before writing the album Jarosz left her adopted home to join her soon-to-be husband in Nashville, TN. The geographic shake-up led to a sonic one as well for Polaroid Lovers. For the first time in her career she opened herself up to collaborators, leading to writing sessions with Daniel Tashian, Ruston Kelly and Natalie Hemby. The creative reorganization of her writing process evolved to include a much richer and more electric sound in the studio and being in Nashville meant access to a world of hot shot players. She tapped guitarist Rob McNelley (Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood), Tom Bukovac (Tom Petty, Vince Gill) on guitar and organ, her husband- bassist Jeff Picker (Nickel Creek), and drummer Fred Eltringham (Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams) for the album recording. Tashian took the helm as producer and the whole album was laid down at the legendary Sound Emporium.
As it goes with all change, Jarosz’s major life events had her feeling contemplative. While sitting on the precipice of adulthood, Polaroid Lovers finds her reflecting on past loves, childhood dreams, the places she lived in and all the versions of herself that she’s been. Although the listener experiences the sonic shift forward, the album’s subject matter is a photo album of the past. Jarosz has never sounded more assured. Polaroid Lovers is filled with the kind of confidence that comes from hard won life experiences and the conviction of someone who truly knows herself.
