Master space artist Don Davis has created a wonderful rendering of the Chelyabinsk meteor fireball. For info on how he made it, see: Chelyabinsk Bolide art by Don Davis – Paradoxically by Paradox Olbers
Video: Planetary Society Hangout looks at sequester and NASA budget
The latest Planetary Society Hangout discussed the question of how the US budget sequester process will affect
NASA’s programs and goals? How does the budgeting process normally work? How normal (or abnormal) a situation is this for planning budgets and reaching goals at the U.S. Space Program? We answer all of these questions with Dr. Jon Morse, Professor of Physics at RPI and previous Director of Astrophysics at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C
http://youtu.be/EGHGqFwtRtc
UNOOSA – STSC 2013 technical presentations
Theo Pirard of the Space Information Center/Belgium sends me a pointer to the technical presentations given at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs‘s Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2013 50th Session (STSC 2013) going on this month (11-22 February)
Some samples:
- The Phoenix Project – David Barnhart/DARPA (pdf) – review of the project to salvage antennas from derelict GEO satellites and combine them with satlets to create new satellites
- Preliminary Analsysis of Chelyabinsk Event – NASA (pdf)
- The Space Generation Congress 2012: Perspectives from University Students and Young Professionals in the Space Sector (pdf)
- Space Debris Activities at ESA in 2012, Heiner Klinkrad, ESA Space Debris Office (pdf)
Russian fireball explosion heard far away by infrasound sensors
Distant infrasound detectors picked up the big sonic boom on meteor fireball that expoded last Friday over Chelyabinsk meteor blast :
The Moon on your wrist
Danielle Signor has posted a collection of gorgeous looking Moon-themed mechanical wrist watches: Moon Watching — Silver Rockets.
For example, there is the Cyrus Klepcys Watch