I miei hanno mandato due trolley dall’italia.
Al momento la nostra vita si è arrichita con:
– 5 kg di pasta barilla
– 1 kg e mezzo di Illy
– un chilo di cioccolatini vari
– 160 panni per lo swiffer
– 2 vestiti da zoccolone
– 4 paia di pantaloni
– 2 lucchetti modello houdini.
Siamo perplessi.
i vestiti da zoccolone?
i lucchetti perplimono ancheme, aspetto la spiega dei vestiti per decidere se devo perplimermi ulteriormente 🙂
I lucchetti erano quelli per chiudere i trolley. Le chiavi, mi pare giusto menzionarlo, erano avvolte nello scotch da pacchi e attaccate alle pareti delle tasche esterne delle valigie. Padreh tirocinante al kgb, perdio. I vestiti da zoccolone sono robe che ho comprato in università, assai neri e assai corti.
Non so se mi da piu’ fastidio il fatto che carichi il bios DOPO il command.com, che ci sia il config.sys MA NON l’autoexec.bat, o in generale il fatto che tutto il sistema sia basato sul DOS. Gesu’.
See history in the making on September 22! That’s the day OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth, will make a close approach to Earth as it uses our planet’s gravity to slingshot itself toward the asteroid Bennu.
Over the course of several days, observatories and amateur astronomers will be able to spot the spacecraft. Below, 10 things to know about this incredible mission that will bring us the largest sample returned from space since the Apollo era.
1. Big Deal
OSIRIS-REx seeks answers to the questions that are central to the human experience: Where did we come from? What is our destiny? Asteroids, the leftover debris from the solar system formation process, can help us answer these questions and teach us about the history of the Sun and planets.
2. That’s a Long Acronym
Yup. OSIRIS-REx stands for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft. The gist: It will rendezvous with, study, and return a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth.
3. Lots of Instruments, Too
While all the acronyms for each instrument may be alphabet soup, each has a job/role to perform in order to complete the mission. Explore what each one will do in this interactive webpage.
4. Nice to Meet You, Bennu
Scientists chose Bennu as the mission target because of its composition, size, and proximity to Earth. Bennu is a rare B-type asteroid (primitive and carbon-rich), which is expected to have organic compounds and water-bearing minerals like clays.
5. Hard Knock Life
Bennu had a tough life in a rough neighborhood: the early solar system. It’s an asteroid the size of a small mountain born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years and dismembered by the gravity of planets—but that’s exactly what makes it a fascinating destination.
6. High Fives All Around
In 2018, OSIRIS-REx will approach Bennu and begin an intricate dance with the asteroid, mapping and studying Bennu in preparation for sample collection. In July 2020, the spacecraft will perform a daring maneuver in which its 11-foot arm will reach out for a five-second “high-five” to stir up surface material, collecting at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of small rocks and dust into a sample return capsule.
7. Home Sweet Home
OSIRIS-REx launched on September 8, 2016 from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket. In March 2021, the window for departure from the asteroid will open and OSIRIS-REx will begin its return journey to Earth, arriving two-and-a-half years later in September 2023.
8. Precious Cargo
The sample will head to Earth inside of a return capsule with a heat shield and parachutes that will separate from the spacecraft once it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. The capsule containing the sample will be collected at the Utah Test and Training Range. Once it arrives, it will be transported to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for examination. For two years after the sample return (from late 2023-2025) the science team will catalog the sample and conduct the analysis needed to meet the mission science goals. NASA will preserve at least 75% of the sample at NASA’s Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston for further research by scientists worldwide, including future generations of scientists.
9. Knowledge Is Power
Analyzing the sample will help scientists understand the early solar system, as well as the hazards and resources of near-Earth space. Asteroids are remnants of the building blocks that formed the planets and enabled life. Those like Bennu contain natural resources such as water, organics and metals. Future space exploration and economic development may rely on asteroids for these materials.
10. Hitch a Ride
Journey with OSIRIS-REx as it launches, cruises, and arrives to Bennu in this interactive timeline.
That really depends on a lot of different things, especially the mass of the second moon, and how far away it is. If Earth had a second moon, it would likely be smaller and further away than our current one is, which means it wouldn’t have a large effect on anything. If the second moon was instead larger and closer to our current one, it would likely be unstable. Because the two moons would interact so strongly, they would act like “slingshots” to each other. Either a moon would come too close to Earth and get torn apart, or a moon would get flung away.
This is something that might have happened on Mars a long time ago. It’s suspected that Mars had more than two moons in the past, but since this system was unstable, a moon got too close and was torn apart by Mars.
A settembre si apriva il frantoio di fronte casa dei nonni. Vi erano due enormi pietre tonde sotto cui si mettevano le olive che venivano ridotte ad una pasta marrone dall’odore forte che a qualcuno dava fastidio. La pasta veniva disposta su dei dischi di corda di cocco creando una pila alta il doppio di me. I dischi venivano poi pressati e rilasciavano piccoli torrenti di olio ed acqua. Dalla miscela veniva separato l’olio che era raccolto in grande latte di stagno o in giare di terracotta. Io aspettavo sempre che la nonna facesse il pane ed una volta sfornato caldo caldo, le chiedevo una fetta con sopra l’olio nuovo e lo zucchero o una spolverata di rieno (origano). La mangiavo in silenzio, gustando la dolcezza dei granelli di zucchero che si scioglievano in gola, avvolto dal gusto forte ed intenso dell’olio nuovo. L’olio a casa era qualcosa di sacro. Farlo cadere voleva dire che una disgrazia sarebbe arrivata presto e se avevi il malocchio dovevi usare l’olio ed il sale per liberartene. L’olivo è un albero che da serenità, resiste ai venti, al tempo, alla siccità, e sta li sempre sui monti ad osservare il mare. Sotto un albero di olivo c’è sempre pace e silenzio, la stessa pace e silenzio che senti nell’olio quando lo metti sul cibo, in fondo per questo era per noi sacro, ricordava quella pace generosa e mansueta dove era cresciuto.
In September, the Crusher opened in front of grandparents’ home. There were two huge round stones and under them they placed the olives that were reduced to a brown slurry with a strong smell that some annoyed. The slurry was arranged on coconut rope discs, creating a high pile, higher than me. The disks were then pressed and released small streams of oil and water. The oil was separated from the mixture, and it was collected in large tin or in terracotta pots. I always expected my grandmother to prepare the fresh bread and when it was ready I cut a slice of bread and I asked grandmother to put over it the new oil and sugar or oregano. I eat it in silence, enjoying the sweetness of the sugar granules melting in the throat, wrapped in the strong and intense taste of the new oil. Oil at home was something sacred. Falling it down meant that a disaster would come soon and if you had the evil eye you had to use oil and salt to get rid of it. The olive tree is a tree that is serene, resists to the winds, the time, the drought and is always on the mountains to observe the sea. Under an olive tree there is always peace and silence, the same peace and silence that you feel in the oil when you put it on food, after all this was the reason why it was sacred to us, it remembered that generous and humble peace where he grew up.
Valuable information if some of your prized books were affected by recent flooding. The video even shows you what to do if you can’t dry the book out right away.
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