Tag: Star Wars

• Moonday: A Bite-Sized Moon

  Can a tiny object have a moon? In 1993, the Galileo space probe was passing through the Asteroid Belt on its way to Jupiter. Despite what you may have learned from The Empire Strikes Back, the Asteroid Belt is relatively empty (and likely contains no mynocks): the many known asteroids fill a huge region between…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 5, 2012

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields

  Moonday!, Space exploration, Star Wars