Space
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Northeast Georgia News
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Reaches Asteroid After Two Year Journey
OSIRIS-REx, a 20-foot-long unmanned NASA spacecraft, arrived at the asteroid Bennu at noon on Dec. 3. Achievement unlocked: “We have arrived!” Our @OSIRISREx mission reached asteroid Bennu, where it will spend almost a year mapping and studying to find a safe location to collect a sample. Watch: https://t.co/zI282xjLzc pic.twitter.com/VMPs7SIfSf —…
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Northeast Georgia News
Leonid Meteor Shower: Georgians Will Have Best Viewing Opportunity Saturday Night
Across Georgia’s skies on Nov. 17, expect to see a shower of shooting meteors. The Leonid Meteor Shower peaks each mid-November, but every 33 years, viewers may experience between hundreds and thousands of meteors per hour, depending on where they are watching, according to NASA. There is a chance this…
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Athens-Clarke County
Chinese Satellite Expected to Fall This Weekend
The entire sky isn’t falling, but a Chinese satellite is expected to fall sometime this weekend. “What people don’t know is that they have no idea where this will come down,” Cotton says. The satellite is the size of a small car, and Cotton says it will probably burn…