In the Sky, Out of Mind (until later)
Oct. 16th, 2023 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerOn Sunday I ran into some reports of the annular solar eclipse I’d heard a bit about having happened on Saturday. My immediate thought was to recall it had been sunny for part of that day here; had I been more aware of things beforehand I suppose I’d have tried putting a pinhole in a card and seeing if I could project the sun with a chip out of one side on another card. The total eclipse next year is supposed to pass within a reasonable travel range for me, but I don’t know if the weather will be any good then.
As I was continuing to think about that today I did make a casual visit to Wikipedia, and there I saw the space probe Psyche had launched on Friday for the metallic asteroid of the same name. (It was launched by a Falcon Heavy rocket, making it a more useful object sent out towards the asteroids than a car.) I did start wondering about not quite keeping up with the news, even if I happened to also see on the Wikipedia front page the centennial of the Disney Studio was today. Right now I am curious if the asteroid Psyche will look altogether different from any of the other asteroids viewed close up, but we won’t actually see that until the end of the decade.
As I was continuing to think about that today I did make a casual visit to Wikipedia, and there I saw the space probe Psyche had launched on Friday for the metallic asteroid of the same name. (It was launched by a Falcon Heavy rocket, making it a more useful object sent out towards the asteroids than a car.) I did start wondering about not quite keeping up with the news, even if I happened to also see on the Wikipedia front page the centennial of the Disney Studio was today. Right now I am curious if the asteroid Psyche will look altogether different from any of the other asteroids viewed close up, but we won’t actually see that until the end of the decade.