As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock NASA's first-ever asteroid sample-collecting spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has had its mission extended – and will next visit Apophis, a near-Earth object expected to fly as close as 20,000 miles to our home planet in 2029. The 340-metre-wide space rock was discovered in 2004 and made headlines after astronomers predicted it could …
There's always that old standby -- a Dremel with a carbide cutting disk. That'll cut/abrade most anything other than diamonds. But most likely it'd contaminate the environment more than just a little.
BTW, has anyone seen a picture of the balky connector(s)? I'm curious what they might look like. I've searched for an image, but haven't found one. How DO you seal a container in zero gravity without introducing contaminants into the container? Apparently NASA found an answer that almost works.
Cylinder? From space, you say? Can’t believe I’m the only one to think of this…
“Suddenly the top of the cylinder began moving, rotating, unscrewing. Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape. He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal…”
Where did the fairly recent penchant for using "x times smaller than y" come from? Are one tenth, one quarter or one thirty second the size of ... seen as old and imperial whereas "32 times smaller than a gnat's appendage" is a more prose worthy modern version?
Anyway, my clock's minute hand has described an arc four times smaller than an hour so I must go ...
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