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USA Today
04-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Nebraska baseball evens series with Minnesota off game-winning hit in the ninth
Nebraska baseball evens series with Minnesota off game-winning hit in the ninth The Nebraska baseball team (23-24, 10-13) clashed with Minnesota (22-23, 8-15) on Saturday in the second game of the conference series. Nebraska won the day 5-4 to even the series in front of a season-high crowd of 6,785. Nebraska got the victory in game-winning fashion with Robby Bolin hitting a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth. Bolin finished 2-for-5 on the day with two RBIs, handing the Huskers their final two runs of the game. This capped off the Huskers' comeback after the Golden Gophers took a 3-0 lead in the third. Nebraska tied the game in the fourth off a Tyler Stone three-run home run, Stone's only hit of the game. Devin Nunez hit 2-for-2 with a run scored while Cayden Brumbaugh, Gabe Swansen, Dylan Carey, and Will Jesske all served up one hit apiece. Ty Horn started at pitcher for Nebraska, going 6.0 innings and striking out six. He surrendered four runs off seven hits. Tucker Timmerman (1-1) closed out the game, shutting down the Golden Gophers across the final three frames to get the win. Nebraska will conclude the series with Minnesota on Sunday afternoon. The first pitch will be at 1:00 p.m. CT on B1G+. Contact/Follow us @CornhuskersWire on X (formerly Twitter), and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Nebraska news, notes, and opinions.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Downtown roof collapse displaces barber, neighboring salon steps up
SPRINGFIELD — Torrential rain on Easter morning left a barber shop trying to figure out how to keep its business alive after its roof caved in. After cleaning up the mess at 318 E. McDaniel, Gavin Bolin, owner of Gavin Bolin Hair & Style, started looking for answers. 'Two days before my 10-year anniversary of being a licensed barber, this happens and it's pretty reflective to life and the cards you get dealt,' says Bolin. He got a call Sunday morning from multiple people on his way to church, including the city. The flat roof at the building his barber shop had occupied for two years collapsed due to the amount of rainfall downtown. He went to the shop as quickly as he could with his family, and started cleaning up. He had just filled his 10th chair with a new barber this month. 'I didn't tell the guys right away because I didn't know at that point kind of what we were dealing with. I have nine guys with families, so it was some pressure like I had never felt before to come up with some answers,' Bolin says. Answers came in the form of another salon just two minutes away in downtown Springfield. Valeria Boss, owner of AVBS at 318 S. Campbell, says hearing what happened was shocking. 'It just broke my heart thinking, if that happened to us, what would we do the next day? You know, as a business owner, we have mouths to feed. We have people that count on us and we take that very seriously,' says Boss. It turns out, the timing for her was perfect to be able to help out a fellow downtown business. 'We've been downtown for 24 years as a salon, and we have an 8,000 square foot building that we just decided to change our business model and downsize a bit.' After mutual friends were able to put the two in touch, they came together to find a solution. 'It was a no brainer,' says Boss. 'It was just meant to be that it was ready to go for someone else to step into.' Boss reached out to Bolin, having never met him before. Bolin says it was a perfect fit for them to have the chance to get back on their feet. 'I walked in and met Valerie, and it was just an immediate yes,' Bolin explains. 'We feel comfortable here and just so pleased that Valeria has given us this opportunity.' The businesses are now both located at the AVBS space at 318 S. Campbell, and can be contacted separately for bookings. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Forbes
12-04-2025
- Science
- Forbes
‘Earth Crosser' Asteroid May Now Strike The Moon, Scientists Say
An artist's illustration of 2024 YR4 Asteroid 2024 YR4, until recently thought to have a chance of striking Earth on December 22, 2032, could now be headed for the moon instead, according to new data. After new observations, 2024 YR4 is thought to have a diameter of about 98–213 feet (30–65 meters). The James Webb Space Telescope studied it in March and found it to be about 197 feet (60 meters). That's about the same width as a football field. The stony asteroid — first discovered on December 27, 2024, when it was passing just 1.5 million miles (2.5 million kilometers) — is one of the largest objects in recent history that could impact the moon, according to a paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. A lunar impact would be a book for scientists, who know little about the relationship between the size of an asteroid and the size of its resulting impact crater — despite the moon being covered in craters. 'If it does, it will give scientists a rare chance to study how the size of an asteroid relates to the size of the crater it creates — something we haven't been able to measure directly before," said Bryce Bolin, the lead author. For now, there's a roughly 2% chance YR4 could collide with the moon. An artist's illustration of 2024 YR4 in relation to Earth. Data from the Gemini South Observatory in Chile and the Keck Observatory in Arizona revealed that the asteroid rapidly rotates backward and may be shaped like a hockey puck. 'This find was rather unexpected since most asteroids are thought to be shaped like potatoes or toy tops rather than flat disks,' said Bolin. '2024 YR4 is a solid rock, likely chipped off from a larger rubble-pile asteroid in the central Main Belt between Mars and Jupiter." That 2024 YR4 appears to come from the main asteroid belt is a surprise. 'This region was not previously known to produce asteroids on Earth-crossing paths,' said Bolin. It's thought that gravitational interactions with Jupiter have forced it into the vicinity of Earth. This composite image of asteroid 2024 YR4 was captured with the Gemini South telescope in Chile. 2024 YR4 came to prominence in late January 2025 when the International Asteroid Warning Network placed the asteroid on its watch list after calculations of its orbit suggested it had over a 1% probability of hitting Earth in 2032. However, more calculations showed that it had dropped below 1% by late February. At the end of February, NASA announced that the chances of 2024 YR4 striking Earth during a close pass in 2032 were near zero. 'Studying this asteroid was vitally important in understanding the population of Earth crossers that have the potential to be Earth impactors and are poorly understood," said Bolin. This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward ... More its potential impact with the Moon. The news about 2024 YR4 comes as astronomers prepare for a very close pass of a much larger asteroid, 99942 Apophis, in exactly four years. The 1,100-foot (340-meter) wide asteroid will get to within 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, creating a once-in-a-thousands-year opportunity for science. It will be so close that it will be seen eyed by observers across Western Europe and Western Africa. When Apophis was discovered in 2004, scientists calculated it might strike Earth in 2029, 2036 or 2068 — hence its "God of Chaos" nickname. NASA and the European Space Agency will send spacecraft to orbit Apophis before, during and after its close pass, just in case its trajectory changes and it becomes Earth-bound. Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Asteroid That Threatened Earth Shaped Like a Saucer, Scientists Find With Large Telescope
After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our planet, astronomers have figured out what it actually looks like: a flat, spinning disk. The preferred analogy has been to compare the shape to a hockey puck. To us, this sounds like a huge missed opportunity to say that the Earth was — however briefly — under threat by a literal flying saucer, just like in that one movie. The findings come from a preprint study, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Using the Gemini South Observatory in Chile, the astronomers imaged the roughly 200-foot asteroid, 2024 YR4, in multiple wavelengths, revealing that it was rapidly rotating once every 20 minutes, in addition to its unusual UFO-like appearance. "This find was rather unexpected since most asteroids are thought to be shaped like potatoes or toy tops rather than flat disks," lead author Bryce Bolin from Eureka Scientific said in a statement about the work. The chunky space rock was first spotted in late December of last year. Soon, early observations predicted that there was a small but disquieting chance of one percent that it could hit our planet. By February, the odds surpassed 3 percent, before the space rock was finally determined determined to be on a harmless trajectory. At the time, from what scientists could tell from visible light observations, 2024 YR4 appeared to be around 300 feet long, a size large enough to wipe out a metropolis should it strike one. Recent research using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared capabilities, however, determined it was actually no more than 220 feet long, or about the size of a 10-story building, and as small as 174 feet. This latest study backs up that estimate, independently concluding that YR4 is between 98 to 213 feet in diameter. Digging deeper, the astronomers studied the asteroid's lightcurves, finding that 2024 YR4 is what's known as an S-type asteroid rich in silicates. That's not surprising, but its origins are: the asteroid appears to have been nudged our way by Jupiter out of the solar system's main asteroid belt, a ring of rocky objects surrounding the Sun that stretches between the orbits of Mars and the gas giant — specifically, a region called the central main belt. Previously, astronomers suspected 2024 YR4 came from the inner main belt, based on its composition — but its retrograde spin revealed in these latest observations indicate otherwise. "We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from," Bolin said. While it no longer poses a threat to Earth, there's still a 3.8 percent chance YR4 could veer into the Moon, according to the latest Webb observations. If it does, the impact will leave a nasty scar — but shouldn't alter the lunar world's orbit. More on space: Scientists Intrigued by Stars Singing Ancient Songs
Forbes
09-04-2025
- Science
- Forbes
Moon-Threatening Asteroid Has Weird Shape, Scientists Say
Asteroid 2024 YR4's star has faded when it comes to the general public, but scientists are pumped to be learning more about it. The space rock reached celebrity status earlier this year when initial data showed it had a small chance of striking Earth in 2032. Further observations ruled out the scary scenario—but the moon is still in play. Now we know more about the famous asteroid. Scientists teamed up to study the asteroid and discovered some surprising information about its possible origin and shape. 'Studying this asteroid was vitally important in understanding the population of Earth crossers that have the potential to be Earth impactors and are poorly understood,' said astronomer Bryce Bolin of Eureka Scientific in a statement on April 8. Bolin is the lead author of a paper on the asteroid set to be published in 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters.' Bolin and his colleagues used the Gemini South telescope in Chile to image the asteroid. 'Detailed analysis of the asteroid's lightcurve (pattern of light output in time) allowed the team to determine its composition, orbital characteristics and 3D shape,' the United States National Science Foundation National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory said. The asteroid likely came from the solar system's main asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. It's quite the hot hangout for asteroids, with NASA estimating it contains between 1.1 and 1.9 million asteroids larger than 0.6 miles in diameter—and many more smaller ones. 'We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from,' said Bolin. The asteroid has a fast rotation of only about 20 minutes. The data shows YR4 has a shape reminiscent of a hockey puck. That qualifies as another surprise. 'This find was rather unexpected since most asteroids are thought to be shaped like potatoes or toy tops rather than flat disks,' Bolin said. The W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii also got in on the asteroid fun and contributed data to the team's paper. Keck's ability to see in infrared helped the researchers study the asteroid's composition. It's likely made of solid rock. Larger asteroids are often called 'rubble piles' since they're conglomerates of rock fragments. Asteroid YR4 may have once been a boulder on one of those larger asteroids. Whether an asteroid is solid or a rubble pile makes a difference when it comes to planetary defense. That's crucial information that could help with planning a mission like NASA's DART test. DART involved crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to alter its orbit. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted in December. There had been some uncertainty about the asteroid's size, but NASA's James Webb Space Telescope turned its powerful instruments on the rock and found it measured in at about 200 feet wide, roughly the size of a 15-story building. That's within the initial estimates of between 130 and 300 feet wide. At one point, early observations suggested 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of impacting Earth. As more data came in, researchers revised that down to near zero. However, the asteroid now has a 3.8% chance of impacting the moon on Dec. 22, 2032. Don't worry about the moon, though. 'In the small chance that the asteroid were to impact, it would not alter the moon's orbit,' NASA said in a statement on April 2. If YR4 does smack into the moon, it will be a thrilling time for astronomers. It would 'provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the relationship between the size of an asteroid and the size of its resulting impact crater—a previously unknown quantity,' NOIRLab said. Researchers aren't done with YR4 yet. Webb is set to check it out again in late April or early May, even as the asteroid becomes too far away and too faint for ground-based telescopes to make observations. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a big mystery. Its composition, size, shape and origin are better understood. We can also breathe a sigh of relief that it won't be barreling into our planet in 2032. The moon, however, may need to brace for impact. We'll know even more as scientists continue to study the space rock.
