Think you can't participate in space exploration? Think again.
New Horizons is a NASA craft en route to Pluto and points beyond. (New Horizons has a Facebook page and a Twitter handle: FB - http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/new.horizons1 Twitter - @newhorizons2015)
It's the 'points beyond' Pluto that bring me here today. Astronomers are asking for help in identifying potential asteroid bodies for New Horizons to visit. If you go to http://www.icehunters.org and log in, you can help mark asteroids in telescope images. From the marked images, NASA will pick a couple of asteroids for a New Horizons visit after its Pluto flyby. You will need IE 9 in order to view and mark the images. Go forth and ID asteroids. The one NASA picks may be yours.
From the Archive: Why I Wrote STAR CRUISE GHOST SHIP “Mary Celeste in Space”
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Since I was a child I’ve always been fascinated by the story of the Mary
Celeste, a freighter found under sail in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872 with no
crew a...
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Kewl! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYou find such fun things to post, Marcella!
ReplyDeleteHow cool is that? Love the "Icehunters" handle. (Hey, that would make a great book title.)
ReplyDeleteThis is so fun.