SPACE UNBELIEVABLE FACTS
Burial Ideas
Want a special burial, but can't think of a good one? Okay, here's one. Have you ever heard of space burial? What's that? Sounds really expensive.
Space burial is a burial procedure in which a small sample of the cremated ashes of the deceased are placed in a capsule the size of a tube of lipstick and are launched into space using a rocket. Only about 150 people have been "buried" in space. At the moment, only ashes can be send into space. To date, the notion of sending an intact human corpse into outer space for burial is simply too expensive and complex to be of any practical use.
Depending on your budget or preference, there's 4 different service for you to choose ranging from $495 to $ 44,995. The difference of the service available are :-
1) Earth Rise Service Spaceflight with return to Earth
2) Earth Orbit Service Launch into Earth orbit
3) Luna Service Launch to lunar orbit(English terms, the moon) or surface
4) Voyager Service Launch into deep space
Interested? Go visit Space Services Inc
Meteor size of a softball with forces of TNT
If you think about how much space stuff hits the atmosphere-protected Earth on a regular basis, you can begin to imagine how many meteoroids and comet-expelled projectiles smash into the moon every day. The moon has no atmosphere protecting it. Anything can hit the moon, completely unhindered. So while a meteoroid the size of a softball in space would never even make it to Earth's surface -- it would burn up completely in Earth's atmosphere -- that same meteoroid is still the size of a softball when it smashes into the moon. And when it does, it explodes with the force of about 150 pounds (70 kg) of TNT.On May 2, 2006 a rock about 10 inches (25 cm) across, traveling at about 85,000 mph (38 km/s), hit the moon and exploded with the energy of 4 tons of TNT and left a crater about 46 feet (14 meters) wide and 10 feet (3 meters) deep.
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