What's Cool in Science This Week?

[Windigo]

I was all over that news item too. Then I read about the planets size.... ooof the Gravity....

[MikeGER]

... ooof the Gravity....

the gravity on the "surface" is only about 27% more then on earth , so 1.27g 
(its heavier but also has a larger radius which comtributs squared in the calc )

if it has the speculated ocean gravity can be compensated by buoyancy of things in that biome

on the surface i expect possible life-forms to be sturdier, short, even flat with an evolutionary  benefit for many short legs  ..something like a Trilobite , Horseshoe crabs, ...

[GDS_Starfury]

a planet of Gus's. 

[Sir Slash]

The PUG PLANET!!! I finally found it! You guys come visit some time OK? 

[Windigo]

... ooof the Gravity....

the gravity on the "surface" is only about 27% more then on earth , so 1.27g 
(its heavier but also has a larger radius which comtributs squared in the calc )

if it has the speculated ocean gravity can be compensated by buoyancy of things in that biome

on the surface i expect possible life-forms to be sturdier, short, even flat with an evolutionary  benefit for many short legs  ..something like a Trilobite , Horseshoe crabs, ...

Looking at our own deep sea dwellers ... everything from crustaceans, sponges, mollusks to vertebrates.

[steve58]

Bennu asteroid sample returing to Earth on Sunday.

After spending over seven years in space and traveling nearly 4 billion miles, a capsule containing precious asteroid samples will return to Earth on Sunday.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft – which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer – launched in 2016 to conduct the agency's first mission to gather material from an asteroid in space. A capsule containing nearly 9 ounces of rocks, dust and dirt collected from an asteroid named Bennu will detach from OSIRIS-REx before its expected crash inside the Defense Department's Utah Test and Training Rage where teams from NASA and Lockheed Martin, which built the vehicle, will be awaiting its arrival.

[GDS_Starfury]

we now have space dust!  what could possibly go wrong.

[steve58]

we now have space dust!  what could possibly go wrong.

(poster from The X from Outer Space.)

[GDS_Starfury]

[steve58]

Black dust and debris were found on the avionics deck of the canister containing the first deep space asteroid sample captured in U.S. history.

NASA scientists made the discovery after the aluminum lid was removed from the OSIRIS-REx mission's canister, which completed its 7-year-long mission

"The dust is presumed to be a part of the sample," a spokesperson for NASA's Johnson Space Center told Fox News, adding the scientists plan to conduct a quick look analysis on it. "This was expected and was always a part of the curation procedures."



...

The sample will be revealed in a live stream on NASA's website on Oct. 11 at 11 a.m. ET.

http://www.foxnews.com/media/nasa-finds-rocks-inside-space-capsule-carrying-asteroid-samples

Hope this reveal is more interesting that Al Capone's vault and the West Point time capsule. 

[Sir Slash]

They call that, 'Dust'? I got more dust than that in my easy chair after I get up out of it and nobody's studying it. Bunch a uppity NASA-Holes. 

[GDS_Starfury]

so many different way I could respond to that Slash...

[Sir Slash]

True. I live to be ambiguous.

[steve58]

Pan, Saturn's innermost moon.  Needs an ocean of some good pasta sauce.



https://www.foxnews.com/us/nasa-publishes-never-before-seen-photos-ravioli-moon-orbiting-saturn

[GDS_Starfury]

thats totally the generation ship that brought us here.