Vendredi 20 juin 2025, après-midi

Stage terminé. A mon mémoire maintenant.
Et j'ai bien pris le temps de dire au revoir à #Ramses et #Noisette

RAMSES
La Leyla
1976 Canada pressing

Some of the KRAUTIEST #krautrock that has ever krauted.

Super proggy.
Super indulgent.
UBER krauty.

The opening track “Devil Inside” has some killer guitar playing, and interstellar keyboards. It’s so badass.

Bong hits recommended.

NASA's Science Mission Directorate has posted an updated Request for Information from any group interested in using the #Janus spacecraft currently in storage to fly by the asteroid #Apophis around its 2029 flyby of Earth: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={F77502A1-B310-35A0-1ACB-B24E17578FE3}

Responses are due by October 28.

This would accompany the #RAMSES and #OSIRISAPEx spacecraft visiting Apophis before and after the flyby and everyone on Earth who will be observing the flyby as it happens.

Asteroid Apophis is ready for its close-up—
In 2029 the sizeable space rock will swing by our planet within one tenth of the Earth-moon distance.

“This will be the first time in the course of modern human history and human civilization where an object this large has gotten this close,”
says Dani DellaGiustina, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, who is leading a NASA mission set to arrive at Apophis.
During the close encounter, Earth’s gravity is expected to change the asteroid in small—and potentially large—ways. Apophis will veer into a slightly different orbit around the sun, its circa 30-hour day could shorten or lengthen, and landslides and temblors may reshape its surface.
European scientists and engineers are now racing against the clock to ready a spacecraft rendezvous to watch the rare encounter firsthand.
The project, dubbed the "Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety", or #Ramses, comes from the European Space Agency ( #ESA ).
Ramses must launch by April 2028—an ambitious timeline, especially because ESA budgeting quirks mean that Ramses isn’t yet fully funded, according to a July 16 ESA statement announcing the mission.
But the opportunity is correspondingly historic:
Ramses would arrive at Apophis in February 2029, about two months before the asteroid whizzes past Earth in a cosmic close shave that scientists estimate happens just once every 7,500 years or so for objects of this size
—nearly as wide as the Empire State Building is tall.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asteroid-apophis-is-target-of-europes-new-ramses-mission/

Armada to Apophis—scientists recycle old ideas for rare asteroid encounter - Enlarge / This artist's concept shows the possible appearance of ESA's ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2037417 #europeanspaceagency #planetaryscience #solarsystem #osirisrex #asteroid #science #apophis #ramses #space #nasa