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Farro Salad With Veggies
In Basil-Grapefruit Dressing
Recipe provided by Brandpoint • Serving size: 1 cup • Servings per recipe: 6
Ingredients
• 1 cup/6 ounces farro
• 2 cups/8 ounces asparagus, cut
into 1-inch lengths
• 4 ounces ruby red grapefruit
juice
• 1 teaspoon grated garlic
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive
oil
• 1/2 cup/1/2 ounce basil, sliced
or very roughly chopped
• 2 cups/8 ounces cherry
tomatoes, halved
• 2 cups/2 ounces arugula,
roughly chopped
Preparation
1. Place farro in a large pot with plenty of salted water. Bring to a boil
and cook until al dente, about 40 minutes. One minute (depending on
the size of the asparagus) before the farro is done, add the asparagus
to the pot. Drain.
2. While the farro is cooking, make the dressing. Whisk together the
grapefruit juice, garlic, mustard and olive oil. Stir in the basil. When
the farro is done and while it’s still hot, toss half the dressing with
the farro. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Let sit for 10 minutes
to allow the flavors of the dressing to absorb. Stir in the cherry
tomatoes and arugula along with the remaining dressing. Taste once
more and serve.
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Twenty Years of Planetary Defense: NASA’s Center for Near-Earth
Object Studies Enters Third Decade
Looking Up
Based on a Press release from JPL,
Provided by Bob Eklund
On March 11, 1998, asteroid astronomers
around the world received an ominous message:
new observational data on the recently
discovered asteroid 1997 XF11 suggested
there was a chance that the half-mile-wide
object could hit Earth in 2028.
The message came from the Minor Planet
Center, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the
worldwide repository for such observations
and initial determination of asteroid orbits.
And although it was intended to alert only
the very small astronomical community that
hunts and tracks asteroids to call for more
observations, the news spread quickly.
Most media outlets did not know what
to make of the announcement, and mistakenly
highlighted the prospect that Earth
was doomed.
Fortunately, it turned out that Earth was
never in danger from 1997 XF11. After
performing a more thorough orbit analysis
with the available asteroid observations,
Don Yeomans, then the leader of the Solar
System Dynamics group at JPL, along with
his colleague Paul Chodas, concluded otherwise.
“The 2028 impact was essentially
impossible,” said Chodas, who is now director
of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object
Studies (CNEOS), located at JPL. “To this
day we still get queries on the chances of
XF11 impacting in 2028. There is simply no
chance of XF11 impacting our planet that
year, or for the next 200 years.”
Chodas knows this thanks to CNEOS’
precise orbit calculations using observation
data submitted to the Minor Planet Center by
observatories all over the world that detect and
track the motion of asteroids and comets. For
the past two decades, CNEOS calculations
have enabled NASA to become the world
leader in these efforts, keeping close watch on
all nearby asteroids and comets—especially
those that can cross Earth’s orbit.
“We compute high-precision orbits for all
asteroids and comets and map their positions
in the solar system, both forward in time to
detect potential impacts, and backward to
see where they’ve been in the sky,” Chodas
said. “We provide the best map of orbits for
all known small bodies in the solar system.”
Near-Earth comet 103P/Hartley as seen by NASA’s Deep Impact probe. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD.
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids
and comets in orbits that bring them into the
inner solar system, within 121 million miles
of the Sun, and also within roughly 30 million
miles of Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
NASA’s original intent was to fulfill a 1998
Congressional request to detect and catalogue
at least 90 percent of all NEOs larger than
one kilometer in size (roughly two-thirds of
a mile) within 10 years.
A CNEOS system called “Sentry” searches
ahead for all potential future Earth impact possibilities
over the next hundred years—for every
known NEO. Sentry’s impact monitoring runs
continually using the latest CNEOS-generated
orbit models, and the results are stored online.
In most cases so far, the probabilities of any
potential impacts are extremely small, and
in other cases, the objects themselves are so
small—less than 66 feet across— that they
would almost certainly disintegrate even if
they did enter Earth’s atmosphere.
More recently, CNEOS also developed a
system called Scout to provide more immediate
and automatic trajectory analyses for
the most recently discovered objects, even
before independent observatories confirm their
discovery. Operating around the clock, the
Scout system identifies the highest priority
objects to be watched. •
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