The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, US, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis, and also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already-detected objects. In January 2019 the second Pan-STARRS data release was announced. At 1.6 petabytes, it is the largest volume of astronomical data ever released.


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It all began on April 19, 2021, when a new asteroid was discovered by the Pan-STARRS near-Earth object survey project. It soon became clear that this asteroid was worryingly likely to strike Earth in just six months.

Further observations confirmed what the international community had feared, an impact was certain. However, the size of the object remained unclear, ranging anywhere from 35 to 700 meters in diameter.

As would be the case if a real asteroid were on collision course, the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) – a network of organizations that detect, track and characterise potentially hazardous asteroids – publicly disseminated weekly updates on the impact probability as the situation progressed.

At the same time, the Space Missions Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) began to consider our options to prevent the impact. However, time is short and we are still uncertain on the size of the object. Most options to deflect an asteroid – such as deflection via a high-energy impact, ‘gravity tractor’ or ‘ion beam shepherd’ – work by only slightly nudging the targeted space rock. However, if performed far enough in advance that small initial nudge builds up to become a large shift in position by the time the asteroid gets close to Earth.

By day three of the conference, the scenario jumps ahead two months to 30 June, less than four months until the imaginary asteroid would strike. At this point, SMPAG concludes that no space missions can be launched in time to deflect or disrupt 2021 PDC from its collision course.

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la mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même

La Villa Straylight

The Sun represents vitality, a sense of individuality and outward-shining creative energy.

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Sun in Virgo

We are images, dreams, photographs. We must not stay here. Prisoners! We shall break the illusion. This is Maya! Goodbye to the Holy Mountain. Real life awaits us....

The sor·cer·er

JNT - Beat

Glock

Metabaron

Decans

The Full Moon of May is known as Flower Moon to signify the flowers that bloom during this month. ... Other names for May's brightest Moon phase are Corn Planting Moon, Mother's Moon, and Milk Moon, from the Old English Rimilcemona which means Month of Three Milkings, when cows were milked three times a day.

Flower Moon

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Chiba is the cultural center of implants, nerve-splicing, and microbionics. Its clinics (both registered, but also the illegal ones) attract the Sprawl's techno-criminal subcultures. It boasts surgery boutiques and especially its black clinics are the cutting edge, supplanting whole bodies of technique every month.

The city is a complex of domes dominated by vast cubes of corporate arcologies. Their dark angles are visible even from the sea.

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Chibacity

NEOWISE...

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope. At that time, it was a 18th-magnitude comet, located 2 AU (300 million km; 190 million mi) away from the Sun and 1.7 AU (250 million km; 160 million mi) away from Earth.[3]

By July 2020, it was bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. It is one of the brightest comets in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997 and was widely observed as being clearly visible with the naked eye. It has been considered by Seiichi Yoshida and Farmer's Almanac as a possible great comet  and NASA noted that it could become known as a great comet.However, this distinction is usually reserved for comets that are easily observable with the naked eye, even with low to moderate light pollution. Under dark skies, it can be clearly seen with the naked eye and might remain visible to the naked eye throughout most of July 2020, at least until July 23, the point of the comet's closest approach to Earth. Prior to that date, the comet will be getting closer to Earth as it moves farther away from the Sun. As of July 18, the comet is about magnitude 3.[10] Near urban areas binoculars are required to locate the comet.

For observers in the northern hemisphere, in the morning, the comet appears very low above the north-eastern horizon, below Capella. In the evening, the comet can be seen low in the north-western sky. The comet can be seen in the morning and evening because it is circumpolar north of the 45th parallel north. On July 17, Comet NEOWISE entered the constellation of Ursa Major, below the asterism of the Big Dipper (The Plough). (If Ursa Major were upright, it would be on the right of the Big Dipper, as of July 15th.)

Neowise

Case had a hard time understanding the Zionites, who always touched him when talking, and Aerol telling him about his ganja hallucinations like facts, until Molly explained that it is a form of art for them. One time as he prepared for a practice run in the freefall corridor, he called Aerol to show him the matrix, handing him the trodes. Case turned the deck on and seeing Aerol shuddering he jacked him back out. Aerol said that he saw Babylon and left.



..Maelcum helped him out saying he was doing fine. As he fumbled into the straps of the web near the computer, Maelcum produced a white lump of foam, brought to him by a Japanese man, opened it with his switchblade, and handed him a rectangular steel cassette. Asked if it part of a gun, Case explained it was a virus, panicking Maelcum, reaching for it, but Case said it is a virus program, which works on his deck...

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bumble

\ kə-ˈlek-shən ˈäv\ /wɝks/

This is my in·ter·pre·ta·tion of my life experiences ...
life is precious...

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