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The Quadrantid Meteor Shower (MS) Peaked Early Friday, 1/03/25, Marking The First MS Of 2025. The Crescent Moon Had Set Before The Peak, Providing A Clear View Of The Shower. Best Seen From Mid-To-Far Northern Latitudes Before Dawn, It Produced Bright Fireballs, With Up To 120 Meteors/Hr. Debris From Asteroid 2003 EH1 Caused This Dazzling Display.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Released A Capsule 63,000 Miles From Earth. The Capsule, Containing The First Asteroid Sample Collected In Space By NASA, Landed In Utah, On 9/24/2023, After A 4-hr Journey. OSIRIS-REx Will Now Divert To The Asteroid Apophis, With The Same Mission To Better Understand Similar Asteroids From The Early Solar System.

An Olympic Swimming Pool-Sized Asteroid, 2023 DW, Has A Small, 1 In 560, Chance Of Impacting Earth On Feb 14, 2046, According To Nasa. It Is Estimated To Fly Pass Earth At A Distance Of ~1.1m Miles, Making It The Only Space Rock On Nasa’s Risk List To Rank 1 On The Torino Impact Hazard Scale—Indicating An Unlikely Risk For An Impact.

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NASA Has Launched A Spacecraft To Test The First Technology That Could Save The Earth From Catastrophic Asteroid Impact. The Nasa’s Dart Mission Will, In Late Sept. Or Early Oct. 2022, Crash A Spacecraft Into A Non-threatening Asteroid Called Dimorphos, At 15,000 Miles/Hour, To Test How Difficult It Is To Stop A Huge Space Rock From Colliding With Earth.

Lock&Stock Is Another App That Incentivises Students To Stay Off Their Phones During Class Or While Studying. The App Does This Via The Credits/Keys That Students Earn For Every Minute Their Phones Stay Locked. The keys Can Then Be Used To, E.G., Apply For Scholarships Via Partnered Universities Or Get Discounts Via Partnered Brands.

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Pope Francis Made A Historic First-Ever Papal Visit To Iraq On The 5th Of March, 2021. The Vist Also Marks The First International Travel For The Pope Since The Coronavirus Pandemic Began. His Trip Will Seek Peace And Reconciliation In A Country With Extraordinary Biblical History, A Surging Coronavirus Outbreak, And Ongoing Political Turmoil.

The Catholic Pope, In His Desire For Greater Participation Of Women In Decision Making, Has For The First Time Appointed A Woman, Sister Nathalie Becquart, Age 52, Who Is From France, As An Undersecretary To The Synod Of Bishops (SOB). SOB Advises The Pontiff And Debates Some Of The Most Controversial Issues In The Roman Catholic Church.

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The Catholic Pope, On 11/28/2020, Has Appointed Archbishop Wilton Gregory, Age 72, As The First Black Cardinal In The Catholic Church. Wilton Has Served As The Archbishop Of Washington, DC Since May 2019. And During The Same Event, Brunei And Rwanda Got Their First-Ever Cardinals, Cornelius Sim, And Antoine Kambanda, Respectively.

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NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft, On 10/20/2020, Successfully Collected Samples From Asteroid Bennu, Currently 200 Million Miles From Earth. The Spacecraft Collected Too Much Sample That Some Are Leaking To Space. NASA Plans To Stow The Samples ASAP, As The Sample Study May Inspire Science For Decades. OSIRIS-REx Is Expected To Return To Earth In 2023.

Notre Dame, A 850-Year-Old Gothic Cathedral, Will Not Be Celebrating It First Christmas In 200 Years Because Of The Fire In April 2019. The French Government Said That Nearly $1.1Bn Has Been Raised Or Pledged For Its Reconstruction. The Catholic Church Has Only Missed Christmas When It Was Closed During The French Revolution in 1792.

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