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Millions of Asteroids Swirl Around You, Think About That
The Asteroid belt dazzles and dares us
Roaring Rivers
What goes up, comes around again
The rocket-rapid year of 2022 is returning back to settle into the dust of the history books.
It was busy.
We fought COVID, and Putin, Politics, Pollution, Pundits, punks, populists, and Climate peril, but during all that time stuff continued to roll and sparkle all around us.
In space.
To get a little more down to earth, I think we should look up a bit more. We realize our mortality and our fragility when we do. We may realize our need to take care of each other, and this place.
You wouldn’t know it because everything was all abuzz here on Earth, but 2022 saw a great deal of advancement in space exploration, beginning with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and ending with a perfect plop down of the Orion rocket module of the Artemis moon mission.
Earlier this year, 2022 successfully launched DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. The dart hit its mark, deflecting a bit of debris (miles) and displaying that in the event of an approaching asteroid that could be dangerous, we have the…