{"id":4574,"date":"2013-09-22T01:29:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2013-09-22T01:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:29:36","slug":"misc-chinese-lunar-lander-preped-late-veneer-or-not-better-neo-finding-more-bucks-for-vasimr-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4574","title":{"rendered":"Misc: Chinese lunar lander preped; Late Veneer or not; Better NEO finding; More bucks for VASIMR documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A diverse array of unconnected items that have built up in my posting queue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chinese preparations for their first lunar lander is progressing towards a launch this year: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.china.org.cn\/video\/2013-09\/12\/content_30008976.htm\" target=\"_d\">Chang&#8217;e-3 lunar probe sent to launch site &#8211; China.org.cn<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Clues to how the early earth was formed come from gold in the crust and in meteorites but they don&#8217;t settle the argument in favor of the &#8220;Late Veneer&#8221; model: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-22904141\" target=\"_d\">Does gold come from outer space? &#8211; BBC<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The rate at which small asteroids are discovered may soon shoot up, so to speak: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-physics-arxiv-blog\/74e8fdba42bf\" target=\"_d\">\u201cSynthetic Tracking\u201d Set to Revolutionise Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery\u00a0 \u2014 The Physics arXiv Blog <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adastrarocket.com\/aarc\/\" target=\"_d\">Ad Astra Rocket Company<\/a>\u00a0raised more than twice the target for its crowdfunding campaign to pay for development of a high production quality documentary video to explain its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adastrarocket.com\/aarc\/VASIMR\" target=\"_d\">VASIMR<\/a> propulsion technology: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/821885354\/animating-vasimr-the-future-of-spaceflight\" target=\"_d\">Animating VASIMR\u00ae: The Future of Spaceflight by Ad Astra Rocket Company \u2014 Kickstarte<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diverse array of unconnected items that have built up in my posting queue: The Chinese preparations for their first lunar lander is progressing towards a launch this year: Chang&#8217;e-3 lunar probe sent to launch site &#8211; China.org.cn Clues to how the early earth was formed come from gold in the crust and in meteorites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misc: Chinese lunar lander preped; Late Veneer or not; Better NEO finding; More bucks for VASIMR documentary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-general","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1bM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5479,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5479","url_meta":{"origin":4574,"position":0},"title":"China to launch lunar lander\/rover","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chinese\u00a0Chang\u2019e 3\u00a0lunar lander\/rover combo is set to launch this Monday, December 2nd at 1:20 am local time (Sunday, 12:20 pm EST, 5:20 pm GMT) from the the Xichang space center in Sichuan province in southwestern China. 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