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Prominences are the "flames" that stick out from the edge of the Sun, like this one: A large prominence arcing...
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Main article: Occultation Chasers Nab the Shadow of Didymos, Post DART Impact NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) deliberately slammed...
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Since Lubbock is experiencing a surge in COVID cases, we are going with a Zoom only meeting this month. I'll...
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NEO Risk and Mitigation In Part I of this series, we discovered the asteroid Apophis' discovery and media furor that...
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Presentation by Tom Heisey on the Perseverance rover on Mars. In particular, I concentrated on the engineering behind the sample...
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Tom Heisey gave the presentation for the September meeting on the current news coming from Mars, primarily from the Perseverance...
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As I was producing a PDF of my presentation from last month's meeting, I realized that the members had so...
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The Ingenuity helicopter is a technology demonstration experiment to show that flying drones are possible in the very thin air...
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Pass the word to girls interested in engineering and space flight - NASA has a webinar next Monday, 6 pm...
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Tom Heisey presented basic information on the Parker Solar Probe after its first pass close to the sun. The presentation...