Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Explorers Club 50, 2024 | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-sp…
- 🧐 There’s a certain part of me that likes a complete matching collection - I am of that type 🤓 - and having no.22 and no.23 of the @lunapress.bsky.social Novella collection makes me wonder: Do I sort these two into my library by author, or haul the entire collection? 🤔 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
- I mean the covers are pretty great
- Approximately 40, 000 tons of interplanetary and cosmic materials fall to the surface of Earth every year from space — that’s 120, 000 million tons since human ancestors evolved approximately three million years ago. 🧪🏺
- For the cable tie lovers out there: some years ago I teamed up with anthropologist Aylza Donald to look at how they became everyday objects. #MaterialCulture 🧪🏺
- I misunderstood a lesson about squirrels storing nuts for the winter in primary school & spent a portion of my childhood believing that squirrels turn into trees when they die.
- That's kind of charming!
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- Venus is often called Earth's twin sister because of similar size and density. And it's thought that earlier in its evolution, it did have oceans. But then a runaway greenhouse effect sent it on a different path to Earth. 🧪 #PlanetSci @planetaryemc2.bsky.social
- Our little Soviet friend is likely down already. 🧪🔭 'While Kosmos 482 falls through fire to the cool greens and blues of Earthside, there are sixteen siblings cooking in the carbon dioxide oven of Venus’ surface, forgotten and forlorn'.
- Today we may see the atmospheric re-entry of a historic spacecraft that was meant to land on Venus and got stuck in Earth orbit, 53 years ago. Predicted re-entry time 10 May 2025, 6:35 UTC ± 3.7 hr (via @marcolangbroek.bsky.social) 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci
- Today we may see the atmospheric re-entry of a historic spacecraft that was meant to land on Venus and got stuck in Earth orbit, 53 years ago. Predicted re-entry time 10 May 2025, 6:35 UTC ± 3.7 hr (via @marcolangbroek.bsky.social) 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci
