Monday night and the Planet Earth will be close to the Planet Jupiter. I mean Planet Earth will be so close to Jupiter, you'll be able to almost reach out and touch it. Yup and the astronomical community is buzzing loud and with NASA colliding a probe into an asteroid, testing planetary defense, the stargazers are simply going orbital with excitement. I watched the 'planetary defense probe' crash into that tiny asteroid that was in orbit around a separate asteroid and talk about much ado over nothing. You could see the tiny asteroid getting closer as the 'planetary defense probe' closed in for the big finish and then...all visualizing was abruptly ended. The tiny asteroid wasn't moving except in it's orbit around the larger asteroid. The 'planetary defense probe' was doing the moving and the closing in on its target. The data that will confirm if the NASA crash test probe motif actually did work, or not, we have to wait until all data is processed. Hurry up and wait. Just so figures. Now it's back to Jupiter and it being close enough to almost reach out and touch. Jupiter will be a mere 367 million miles from our current home world of Planet Earth and that's not much in strictly astronomical terms. You'll be able to step outside and see good old Jupiter unaided. Gosh...is that about exciting or what. Next time I keyboard up, I'll let a reader know if I was able to see Jupiter or I simply forgot and headed for bed. That could happen and does on a regular basis. Now for that Tuesday machine art. No images of Jupiter were available for running through the old artistic machinery. There are loads of images of the Planet Jupiter, I was simply too freaking lazy to google up an image. That happens quite regularly.
clipper -
old world -
beast world -
cloak no dagger? -
I enjoy watching the NASA folk while they track one of their scientific endeavors. you can almost feel the excitement the NASA folk exude while doing a countdown. 😎
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