#meteoroid

[dwellordream]

hii heres a sketch i made based on your fic meteoroid! i really love your septa dunk / dunelle and rhae & daella are so adorable <3

Thank you so much! They're so cute!

[chernobog13]

Because I get tired of hearing/reading these designations used interchangeably in both fiction and newspaper articles.

Who says this site can't be educational?

[livingforstars]

Catching Falling Stardust - February 1st, 1997.

"This carrot-shaped track is actually little more than 5 hundredths of an inch long. It is the trail of a meteoroid through aerogel, exposed to space by the shuttle launched EURECA (European Recoverable Carrier) spacecraft. The meteoroid itself, about a thousandth of an inch in diameter, is visible where it came to rest, just beyond the tip of the carrot. Chemical analyses of interplanetary dust particles similar to this one suggests that some of them may be bits of comets, and represent samples of material from the early stages of the formation of the Solar System. NASA's Stardust mission would attempt to directly collect dust from the tail of a comet and return it to Earth - the first non-lunar sample return mission ever! In addition to peering into the chemistry and history of the Solar System, the composition of cometary dust has important implications for the possibility of past life on Mars."

[bruesselbach]

Chicxulub (Paleofacture 25), July 2024, oil on canvas, 16x16in.

[the-fact-site]

On average, Earth is struck by a football-field-sized meteoroid once every two thousand years. #FACT

[vujime]

Today I saw this MARVELOUS sight.

Thought I must share with my Tumblrians.

Dedicated to all my friends here.

Thank you for your MARVELOUS presence in my TumbLife.

[mediapearls]

[velthurvik]

Streifzug durch eine Mineralien- und Fossilienbörse in Dresden, 2023, der Fachgruppe Mineralien und Fossilien Radebeul, Bezirksgruppe der VFMG e. V. Hier einige Eindrücke: