Recent content by Clark

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    City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say

    Yes, NASA's critical audience is children around the age of 10-12, as that is the age when kids are inspired. A prime opportunity to spark a lifelong interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields by engaging them with exciting space exploration concepts, potentially...
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    Question Satellites reflecting bright green light?

    Heh. :) No, drinking or consuming anything that would change our perspective. :D [Edited: updated original post.]
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    Question Satellites reflecting bright green light?

    [Edited] My wife and I were looking at the stars last night while visiting Orcas Island, WA (48° 38.122' N 122° 59.204' W), as it was rather clear. We could make out the milky way and we were watching for meteors; specifically, the perseids meteor shower. We had seen many satellites fly over...
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    NASA's Parker Solar Probe flies by the sun in 5th close encounter

    A sentence so daring, that it daringly redefines the use of the word "daring".
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    Antarctica's Denman Glacier is sinking into the world's deepest canyon

    It sounds like the canyon is already filled with Ice from the existing glaciers, thus it's swapping out the ice the water. The volume of water 92% smaller then Ice, but the glaciers extend well above sea-level.
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    Antarctica's Denman Glacier is sinking into the world's deepest canyon

    "268 billion tons (2.43 metric tons)" reads like a typo to me. Shouldn't it be "268 billion tons (243 billion metric tons)"? 268 B. tons to B. metric tons Apologies if I miss understood the articles conversions.