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NASA successfully retrieves first asteroid samples from OSIRIS-REx spacecraft

October 05, 2023 -

The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe was launched on Sept. 8, 2016, and traveled to the near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx collected a sample of rocks and dust from the surface of this asteroid and then made the long journey back to Earth.

The OSIRIS-REx landed at 10:52 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24 in a Department of Defense-managed targeted area at the Utah Test and Training ...

Skyscraper-sized asteroid spotted near Earth deemed “potentially hazardous” by NASA

August 08, 2023 -

Experts report that 2022 SF289 is 600-foot-wide (180 meters) and orbits close enough to Earth to be classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA). The asteroid 2022 SF289 is one of an estimated 2,300 similarly classed objects.

Potentially hazardous asteroids are near-Earth objects (NEOs) that are larger than 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter.

PHAs could come within 4.65 million miles (7.48 million km) of Earth, or roughly 20 times the average distance between ...

Study: Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs allowed flowers to grow on the planet

September 22, 2023 -

Details of the study were published in the journal Biology Letters.

After an asteroid struck Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, Earth lost at least three-quarters of its species, along with all non-avian dinosaurs.

Experts call this devastating period the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event.

New modeling showed that, even amid widespread devastation, angiosperms or the major families of flowering plants were adaptable enough ...

NASA asteroid deflection test accidentally creates a BOULDER SWARM that could impact the Earth with as much energy as the Hiroshima detonation

August 11, 2023 -

In September 2022, NASA conducted its first "planetary defense" experiment known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), with the goal of intentionally crashing a spacecraft into the asteroid known as Dimorphos in an attempt to change its trajectory.

NASA astronomers at the time concluded that the project was an amazing success, and Dimorphos' trajectory was changed slightly. The success of DART proved to scientists that there could be a way to save the Earth ...

Climate fanatics unveil massive sky UMBRELLA scheme to block sunlight and “cool” planet

August 10, 2023 -

In order to do this, Szapudi wants to capture an asteroid and use it as a counterweight to hold the umbrella and intercept all of the sun's ultraviolet rays so they never reach the earth's surface.

Things would be really dark and cold in such a scenario, but at least it would never be warm again, warmth being something that climate fanatics everywhere fear like the plague and want to eliminate from the four corners of the earth.

Szapudi actually published a paper ...

Subtle like a brick through a window – CIA outlet approves Donald Trump assassination

December 06, 2023 -

(Article by Sundance republished from TheConservativeTreehouse.com)

Therefore, when the husband of State Dept official Victoria Nuland, a man named Robert Kagan, writes an op-ed in the CIA newsletter, effectively calling for President Trump to receive the Julius Caesar treatment, the non-subtle message is for the CIA to repeat their Kennedy performance and kill President Trump.

As alarming as this acceptance might sound, there are no intellectually honest ...

Democrat Rep Sheila Jackson Lee tells students the moon is ‘made up mostly of gases’

14 days ago -

(Article by Thomas Stevenson republished from ThePostMillennial.com)

The former member of the Science Committee and former Ranking Member of the Space and Aeronautics Committee in Congress spoke to the students on Monday and said that the moon was "made up mostly of gas."

Rep. Sheila Jackson: The moon is “made up mostly of gases”

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There was heavy backlash online against the ...

Experts discover “terror beast” fossils in Greenland that are over half a BILLION years old

January 12, 2024 -

Data from the preserved fossils revealed that the underwater creature had a giant jaw and dominated the seas more than 500 million years ago. The research team found the fossils of the newfound species of carnivorous worm Timorebestia koprii (T. koprii) or "terror beast" in northern Greenland.

Details of the study were published in the journal Science Advances.Terror beasts existed during the early Cambrian period

Researchers said the terror beast existed during ...

Study reveals that 71% of Americans DON’T TRUST the U.S. government to save them in DOOMSDAY scenarios

October 16, 2023 -

The study, which surveyed 6,200 Americans, found the majority of Americans believe that doomsday will happen in 2024. The researchers discovered that the top five states with the least amount of trust in the government are as follows – Arizona (82 percent), Kansas (78 percent), Alabama (78 percent), Pennsylvania (77 percent) and Oregon (76 percent).

Moreover, a total of 55.8 percent of respondents think that a climate change-related catastrophe is the most likely form ...

Solar storm could kill 90% of the population in a year, Dennis Quaid warns… are you prepared to survive?

January 24, 2024 -

Actor Dennis Quaid recently sat down with Tucker Carlson to warn about this very real possibility and talk about his new documentary, Grid Down, Power Up.

“Basically, there is a 100 percent probability that our sun, generating what they call a GMD, which is a solar storm, that hits hard, hits our Earth, and the magnetic field we have around the Earth, and can fry everything that is electric above the ground, including our entire grid," he told Carlson.

Not only ...

Doomsday scenarios: Possible events that could cause the extinction of humans

September 12, 2023 -

Nuclear war and fallout

In 1945, Albert Einstein said: "The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking." Seventy years later, in 2015, countries are still stockpiling nuclear weapons in preparation for nuclear war.

A nuclear war is not likely to be survived by the human species. Studies of the world's leading climatologists predict that a large nuclear war – especially one fought with strategic nuclear weapons – would create a post-war ...

Scientists discover an enormous underwater mountain off the coast of Guatemala

December 05, 2023 -

The seamount is 5,249 feet (1,600 meters), which means it is nearly twice as high as the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building at an impressive 2,722 feet.

Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) discovered the underwater mountain using a multi-beam echosounder on the Falkor research vessel.

Wendy Schmidt, co-founder and president of the SOI, said that during every expedition, researchers on the Falkor research vessel "have found the unexpected, ...

The catastrophic failures of the Biden administration are motivating more Americans than ever to prepare for an apocalypse

June 26, 2023 -

(Article by Michael republished from TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com)

With the Doomsday Clock the closest to midnight it has ever been, over 70% in a new survey of 6,200 said they “do not have faith in the government” in a catastrophe such as a nuclear war or even climate-change-fueled disaster.

As a result, many are hoarding water, food, warm clothing, weapons, and cash to help them get through the worst days of a doomsday event.

These days, companies that are helping ...

A shocking new survey reveals the greatest threats that preppers in the U.S. believe we are facing

November 22, 2023 -

(Article republished from EndOfTheAmericanDream.com)

Only preppers were permitted to participate in the survey, and those that responded were asked to identify the three greatest threats to our society.

More than 50 percent selected “loss of electric grid” as one of the greatest threats.  I would not have guessed that this would be the number one response, but without a doubt this is a potential danger that our politicians have neglected.  Our sun is becoming ...

Scientists uncover “alien metals” from METEORITES in 3,000-year-old jewelry

February 16, 2024 -

The Treasure of Villena is a hoard of 59 gold-plated objects found in 1963 in southeastern Spain. It was discovered by a team led by archaeologist Jose Maria Soler while the team was excavating a dry river bed, the Rambla del Panadero, three miles north of the city of Villena.

Researchers examining the gold objects found meteoric iron in two pieces of jewelry in the set of artifacts that make up the hoard. The meteoric iron is an early-universe protoplanetary disk remnant ...

NASA details complex mission to collect rock samples from asteroid Bennu

October 08, 2020 -

The autonomous spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will be touching down briefly on the asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20. Through its robotic arm, it will scoop rocks on the landing site Nightingale, a 52-foot rocky area in Bennu’s northern hemisphere. If all goes according to plan, the samples will be returned to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023.

The feat has only been done by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. If the OSIRIS-REx mission is successful, it will be the first time the United States ...

Scientists design a new spacecraft, called a HAMMER, to carry nukes to incoming asteroids that threaten Earth

April 07, 2018 -

HAMMER stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response. Each unmanned vehicle is expected to weigh around eight tons, which is less than the old Apollo spacecraft or the successor Orion system.

The American researchers published their conceptual asteroid deflection spacecraft in the journal Acta Astronautica. They will be presenting it at an asteroid-research conference in May.

Their study called for the deployment of a group of HAMMERs ...

Cyanide found on meteorites can broaden understanding of life itself

March 07, 2020 -

“When most people think of cyanide, they think of spy movies — a guy swallowing a pill, foaming at the mouth and dying,“ said lead author Karen Smith, senior research scientist at Boise. “But cyanide was probably an essential compound for building molecules necessary for life.”Life seeded by meteorites

According to the scientists, the extraterrestrial compounds found in the meteorites resemble the active sites of hydrogenases, which are enzymes that provide energy to microorganisms ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REX mission will examine samples from an asteroid, seeking clues to the origin of life

March 07, 2018 -

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) kindly shared the image of our planet and its natural satellite as seen through the spacecraft's NavCam1 imager from a distance of 39.5 million miles. OSIRIS-REx took the photo on 17 January of this year.

Seen from that distance, Earth and the Moon look like luminous stars instead of the blue-white and grey marbles we know them to be. They stand out as the brightest and largest objects in the photo. They're ringed ...

Avoiding Armageddon: Scientists experiment with ways to destroy or redirect threats from space

April 17, 2018 -

That's why researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have been working as part of a national planetary defense team, and it is now reported that so far, they have managed to design a conceptual spacecraft that's meant to deflect any and all Earth-bound asteroids. After finishing the work on their initial design, they evaluated it to understand how it could work against a massive asteroid. The results of the research, details and all, were recently shared ...