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6 days ago · On November 1, 2023, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by the main-belt asteroid Dinkinesh. Now, the mission has released pictures from Lucy’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager taken over a roughly three-hour period, providing the best views of the asteroid to date.
4 days ago · Hypatia was honored as an astronomer when 238 Hypatia, a main belt asteroid discovered in 1884, was named for her. The lunar crater Hypatia was also named for her, in addition to craters named for her father Theon. The 180 km Rimae Hypatia are located north of the crater, one degree south of the equator, along the Mare Tranquillitatis.
6 days ago · A near-Earth object ( NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun ( perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance ( astronomical unit, AU). [2] This definition applies to the object's orbit around the Sun, rather than its current position, thus an object with such an orbit is considered ...
4 days ago · Phobos ( / ˈfoʊbəs /; systematic designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, [10] the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall. It is named after Phobos, the Greek god of fear and panic, who is the son of Ares (Mars) and twin brother of Deimos .
6 days ago · Here are some fun facts about specific asteroids in the belt. 17 Vesta, the second-largest object in the belt, has a giant crater named Rheasilvia, which is 505 kilometers in diameter. 18 Asteroid 243 Ida has its own moon, Dactyl, which is about 1.4 kilometers in diameter. 19 Asteroid 433 Eros was the first asteroid to be orbited and landed on ...
The main belt and road project involving Azerbaijan is the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, a land transport network stretching from China and Southeast Asia to Europe, part of China’s effort to replicate the ancient Silk Road route between China, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
2 days ago · Reliable and efficient – designed for decades. Ecological with energy regeneration. Curved single-flight conveying systems of 20 km and longer. Conveying capacity up to 10,000 t/h. Conveying speeds up to 6.5 m/s. Small horizontal radii up to 400 m. Conveying speed: up to 6.5 m/s. Conveying capacity: up to 10,000 t/h, e.g. iron ore.
