02 czerwca 2006
My High School Teacher on NPR
When I first got to St. Gregory, my very first class was taught by a brand new teacher, Erik Asphaug. When I graduated three years later (I came as a sophmore), Asphaug decided to leave and attend grad school at the U of A. I know it was difficult for him to live without me.His main field of study is minor planets: their evolution, their effect on other planets and the results of their collisions. Basically, he plays Asteroids and gets paid for it. Lucky bastard.
He's even got an asteroid named after him. More than you've got.
He was interviewed on NPR yesterday. He is working on some data from a probe studying an near Earth object called Itokawa (a MOID of only 0.01295 AU, buy an umbrella!) It supposedly looks like a sea otter (as opposed to the more dangerous land otter, or Butch Otter, for that matter), but I'm having a hard time seeing it. What is more interesting for the team studying it is that Itokawa isn't solid, but a bunch of boulders held together by gravity, even though its gravity is only a fraction of Earth's.
Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.
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well according to all the disaster movies, only NYC, Washington D.C., and LA are in danger of being hit by asteroids. And we all know that is where we should get our science information!
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