NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft has arrived safely in lunar orbit and has now well into its distant retrograde orbit which is taking the mission some 92,195 kilometres beyond the Moon – further than any other human rated spaceship.
*Scientists find a field full of meteorites from asteroid explosion over South Australia
Scientists have discovered one of the largest meteorite-strewn fields in Australia. The six kilometre long ellipse fall zone located north of the outback South Australian town of Port Augusta was created by the airburst of a large meteor about one and a half metres wide back on July 31st in 2013.
*NASA’s planetary defense team successfully predicts an asteroid impact
In the early hours of Saturday, November 19, the skies over southern Ontario, Canada, lit up as a tiny metre wide asteroid streaked across the sky high in Earth’s atmosphere, broke up, and scattered into dozens of small meteorites over the southern coastline of Lake Ontario. What makes this one special is that it’s only the sixth time ever that a space rock has been detected in space and identified as potential Earth impactors before it hit.
*China’s confrontation with the Philippines to steal space junk debris from a Chinese rocket
A Chinese Coast Guard vessel has twice blocked a Philippine rubber patrol boat before forcibly seizing a large section of space junk debris from a Long March 5B rocket which felt to Earth in Filipino territory.
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00:00 Introduction
00:26 Orion’s historic journey around the Moon
04:06 Scientists find a field full of meteorites from asteroid explosion over South Australia
12:19 NASA’s planetary defense team successfully predicts an asteroid impact
18:20 China’s confrontation with the Philippines to steal space junk debris from a Chinese rocket
20:39 End Credits