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Members Newsletter – May
The Board of Directors of i4is and the Editor of Principium will make the following announcement in the next issue of Principium:”The i4is Board has been considering the future of Principium, given changes in the ways in which people receive and consume information and content. We have decided to pause the publication of Principium with […]
What’s up with 1998 KY26?
Adam Hibberd I’m not sure whether you might already be aware of this but there are really weird objects orbiting the Sun which astronomers have observed and tried to categorize as a new class of object, ‘the dark comets’. But what makes them weird? It’s the rather strange fact that the peculiar orbital paths they […]
Mission to an Interstellar Object
Adam Hibberd Many readers in-the-know will have heard of the future ESA ‘Comet Interceptor’ mission, due to launch in 2029. For those not-in-the-know it is a spacecraft desgined to loiter at the famous Sun/Earth Lagrange 2 (L2) point for a few years, waiting for a ‘pristine’ Oort Cloud comet to come flying in to the […]
Members Newsletter – April
Dami Lee on Project HyperionWe were really happy to see that our Project Hyperion competition (https://www.projecthyperion.org/) captured the imagination of the architect and Youtuber Dami Lee, who posted a detailed and thoughtful video commentary ‘Can Humans REALLY Leave Earth?’ Over one million views! Check it out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBb2gC0lByk&pp=0gcJCVACo7VqN5tD(You may want to skip the ads that are […]
Members Newsletter – March
News from i4isThe i4is Educational team are currently recruiting! If any of our members are interested, and especially if you are in striking distance of London or Lincoln, both in the UK, we could do with support at the April events mentioned below. You can read about some of the activities in recent issues of […]
Principium 52
Principium 52 has gone out to subscribers and is now accessible to all
2024 YR4, Which Rendezvous Plan?
Adam Hibberd The object known as 2024 YR4 has laid down the gauntlet on humanity. ‘See me outside, or take the consequences!’ The consequences however would not be eternal dishonour and ignominy, but a complacent denial of the existential threat posed by Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) such as this. True, a few weeks after its […]