We had a terrific program at my astronomy club tonight. This is Charlie who is the Astronomy Outreach Coordinator for the Vanderbilt Planetarium, and he gave a talk on a lot of the "stuff" up there in space, like Comets and Meteors and Asteroids. He also talked about all the space "junk" that we have put into orbit around Earth and about how hazardous it can be to satellites and manned space missions. Here he shows what the head of a comet looks like seen up close by a space mission. We all know what a comet looks like from a distance with its long tail or tails, but this is a closeup. He covered so much material and it was wonderful!
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Sounds fascinating. We do tend to forget about all the space junk out there. The head of the comet looks bizarre! Betsey
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