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Scott Manley

@handle.invalid

Making my year end donations and I encourage space nerds who are interested in planetary defense to contribute.
In the last 12 months we lost NEOWISE, but @b612foundation found almost 30,000 untracked objects in old data.
https://t.co/FBGj6pZRmO https://t.co/QmvWWPiJvS

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Support Asteroid Institute in developing tools to understand, map, and navigate our solar system, and protect our planet from asteroid impacts.

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December 31, 2024 at 1:23 AM

Peter Thoeny

@peterthoeny.bsky.social

Astronaut Ed Lu, framed by the celestial bokeh of whiskey bottles

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

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Astronaut Ed Lu, framed by the celestial bokeh of whiskey bottles

I was invited to take photos of the holiday party of the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to track asteroids that potentially hit Earth. We definitely want to avoid a disastrous event like the extinction of dinosaurs. B612 was founded by the two astronauts. One is Edward Tsang "Ed" Lu, who I captured here with the vintage Dream Lens. The bubbly bokeh is from whiskey bottles hanging from the ceiling of the bar, also called Bottle Keeping.

-- ƒ/0.95, 50 mm, 1/90 sec, ISO 1600, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

December 13, 2024 at 8:36 AM

Asteroid Institute, a program of B612

@b612-asteroid.bsky.social

Happy 90th trip around the sun to legendary Apollo Astronaut #RustySchweickart! Help honor his incredible legacy and propel the vital work of B612 by making a gift in his name today: bit.ly/3WjJWMj

#B612Foundation #SpaceExploration #ApolloProgram #AsteroidDay #90thBirthday