Monkeyshines Movie Club presents the film noir classic, The Third Man (1949)

Monkeyshines Movie Club presents the film noir classic, The Third Man (1949)

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Most asteroids are pretty predictable. They just do what they're told, pushed and tugged by external forces such as gravity or radiation pressure from the Sun. Not 1998 KY26. KY26 is hooning about like a ne'er-do-well – that is, accelerating in a way that defies expectations for how a well-brought-up asteroid ought to behave. One proposed explanation for these cosmic monkeyshines is that KY26 is only masquerading as an asteroid – that, in its deep heart of hearts, it's really a 'dark' comet, whose undetectable outgassing is steering it along a different path. But there's now a problem with that explanation. According to aerospace engineers Korbin Hansen and Masatoshi Hirabayashi of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the 11-meter (36-foot) space rock is too warm to retain the ice needed to power propulsion. "Our temperature model results indicate that the water outgassing rate on 1998 KY26 would be too high to maintain buried ice, refining the understanding of the asteroid's composition," they write in a paper published in Icarus. The rocks that populate interplanetary space generally fall into two broad categories – asteroids and comets. Asteroids are mostly lumps of rock, whereas comets contain ice that, as it sublimates into gas...

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In Tacoma, Wash., glass artists hide beautiful glass spheres around the city each winter for residents to find. They're called "monkeyshines," because the first ones were stamped with a monkey stamp.