Tag: moon
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PBS Eons: Did Asteroids Spark Life?
PBS Eons has a new video. This one is about the very early history of the Earth, a period called the Hadean. How did the building blocks of life form? Harold Miller did some experiments in the 1950s attempting to recreate the conditions. The impacts of a large asteroid might have provided the perfect condition…
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PBS Eons: When Earth “Ate” a Planet
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the origin of our moon. Where did our unique moon come from? It turns out that lunar rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts are a clue, pointing to the origin of our closest cosmic companion, an origin even stranger than you might imagine…
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The Eclipse Was So Nice, They’re Doing It Twice
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or perhaps in a cave, you’re probably heard about the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8th, 2024. The New York Times has a nice and informative story about the event. Here is the Chicagoland area, we are at around the 90% band. That’s pretty significant. Hopefully, the…
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‘Giant impact’ theory of moon’s formation gets another boost
Space.com has a story about the formation of the moon. A recent paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Scieces lends more evidence for the “Giant-Impact Hypothesis” of the creation of the moon. Scientists have found fresh evidence in lunar rocks showing that the moon was likely formed after a Mars-sized planet crashed into…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #12: Moon Rocks At Argonne
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #12. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! From the September 1969 edition of the ESCONI “The Earth Science News”. Some Moon rocks were studied at Argonne National Laboratory in 1969 and…
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50 Years Ago We Landed On the Moon!
The NY Times Science Time section has a bunch of stories about the Moon landing 50 years ago today, July 21st, 1969. Here is a partial list of related stories. Enjoy!
