Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group (WGSBN) – the folks responsible for assigning names to minor planets and comets – last week published a bulletin in which it gave 29 small celestial bodies their very own names. One of the newly named bodies has been given the moniker "Zoozve" and it is remarkable – for several …
.... Hamner-Brown but technically it would have to be a comet rather than a minor planet.
Or Hot-fudge-sundae-that-falls-on-aTueday!
------------> Mine's the one I'll wear for a world ending collision!
Are you not disturbed that the child is an egg (Egbert not a very imaginative name there) - and yet his parents are the natural enemy of all eggs - giant spoons.
He's obviously adopted. So perhaps it's some do-gooding social worker's idea of reconciliation between the warring parties. Let's hope it doesn't end badly.
All the animations seem to be bean-shaped, but apparently Zoozve actually orbits the sun, and only "appears" to orbit Venus, due to it solar orbit going inside / outside Venus. As I understand it, Zoozve actually has an almost elliptical orbit around the sun, intersecting the Venus orbit, almost (but not quite) synchronous with Venus. Is there an animation of that?
Since Zoozve is not orbiting around Venus, the concept of "orbit" is a bit nebulous. But the shape described in returning to the starting point is bean shaped. The envelope of beans is also bean shaped, and if traced with a decaying phosphor, the wings sort of appear to beat like a butterfly.
Meh. Sims suggest no danger for 10000 years. In 10000 years, either we have the ability to deflect asteroids, or we're long extinct for whatever reason. I don't think there are realistically any other options; I could come up with steady state scenarios for mankind for 10000 years, but I think they'd have to be extremely contrived.
A "steady state" of this Culture, one using oil and coal, can not be continued for a millennium. There isn't sufficient oil and coal for that. It's simple arithmetic. Earth is so big, she can only contain so much oil, if we burn it at any rate it will, must, eventually run out. There can *never* be any more made.
So, either Man does something terribly clever and nice and becomes the sort of calm, lovely, united species that can create and sustain a better society with bettter energy supplies or, very shortly, there will be non-interfertile remnant species trying to survive in a zombie-infested, biologically contaminated nuclear wasteland.
I've seen a politician, I know which I'd bet on.
"The Wizards lived in castles miles tall. They faught wars with Wizard weapons. We watched the skies burn."
It is worth reading this twitter thread on how Zoozve got its name due to an artists misreading the defined name
Its a great detective
There's a pair of podcast episodes about it too:
https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve
https://radiolab.org/podcast/breaking-newsve-about-zoozve
(Disclaimer: I've not yet had a chance to listen to them myself, but Radiolab usually has really enjoyable contents. And of course, Latif Nasser who is the originator of the X thread linked above, is the co-host of the show, so this is straight from the horse's mouth.)
KittenHuffer: European Helicopter Industries 01 (EHI01)
When I worked on the Merlin, it was called the 'Eee Aitch One Oh One'. I had no idea that the first 'One' was actually an 'I' and that everyone was getting its name wrong. Trouble was I left before they got the simulator up and running otherwise I'd have had a go at flying it. I did get to play in a different helicopter simulator later, though, they are really hard work, helicopter pilots are awesome.
"One is that it's the first identified quasi-satellite of a major planet."
I thought that Earth (which, according to IAU rules is not really a planet as she hasn't cleared her orbit: the Moon is in it and Earth isn't "in hydrostatic equilibrium": she has lumpy bits in the South Atlantic) had some of those? Cruithne for one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne
Don't these guys read their own Press releases?
Oh, and don't the four gassy planets have loads of things like this? Of course, maybe the IAU don't think Saturn is a "major" planet?
