(an occasional series of tidbits I found delightful)
Writers Sherwood Smith and Judith Tarr discuss Writing: Where history, fantasy, and science fiction intersect.
“The Pomegranate Architect“: A previously unpublished essay by Ray Bradbury
Asteroid M44 streaks across the night sky. On Monday, January 26, well-tracked asteroid 2004 BL86 made its closest approach, a mere 1.2 million kilometers from our fair planet. That's about 3.1 times the Earth-Moon distance or 4 light-seconds away.
Vesta is the second most massive body in the asteroid belt, surpassed only by Ceres, which is classified as a dwarf planet... and other cool stuff about Vesta
Writers Sherwood Smith and Judith Tarr discuss Writing: Where history, fantasy, and science fiction intersect.
“The Pomegranate Architect“: A previously unpublished essay by Ray Bradbury
Asteroid M44 streaks across the night sky. On Monday, January 26, well-tracked asteroid 2004 BL86 made its closest approach, a mere 1.2 million kilometers from our fair planet. That's about 3.1 times the Earth-Moon distance or 4 light-seconds away.
Vesta is the second most massive body in the asteroid belt, surpassed only by Ceres, which is classified as a dwarf planet... and other cool stuff about Vesta
Barns Are Painted Red Because of the Physics of Dying Stars Red ochre—Fe2O3—is a simple compound of
iron and oxygen that absorbs yellow, green and blue light and appears
red. It’s what makes red paint red. It’s really cheap because it’s
really plentiful. And it’s really plentiful because of nuclear fusion in
dying stars
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