On Saturday 20 November, in the Convention Hall of the Cerdà Museum in Puigcerdà, as part of the European Science Week, Dr. Toni Santana-Ros offered the conference: "Exoplanets. Planets beyond the Solar System". The event was organized by the Cerdanya Research Group.
ICCUB researcher and scientific communicator Toni Santana-Ros will give the talk "Exoplanets: Planets beyond the Solar System" a
Bits of interplanetary dust and rock hit Earth all the time. Most of these are harmless and burn up in our planet’s atmosphere. Occasionally, some bigger objects make it through, causing local damage or, in extreme cases, massive devastation. But with the right technology and knowledge of asteroids’ orbits, scientists can anticipate and prevent an impact by defecting an asteroid just enough to avoid a collision.
Today, Friday, March 4th, the Chinese mission Chang’e 5-T1 spaceship will impact on the surface of the Moon. Specifically, the collision will take place at 1:25:58 pm on the dark side of the Moon so it will not be observable from Earth.
