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“There are a lot of partnerships where you’re carpooling to go to the nightclub, and then there are long-term collaborations,” said Saubestre. “We are fiancés for the time being, but we are trying to make this couple work.”

“There’s a lot that can be optimized, and there’s a lot of potential, and that was the reason to go into this partnership with someone who is as keen as we are to make it happen,” said Saubestre. “We’re hoping to retain this competitive advantage that we’ve had over the years and inventing the future machines to run our simulations.”

Added Saubestre, some vendors with whom TotalEnergies works focus on selling cloud services, but such services aren’t necessarily ideal for the kinds of work the energy giant needs to get done.

For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-meter asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon’s attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be entirely safe.

Initial observations of an asteroid dubbed ‘2022 AE1’ showed a potential Earth impact on July 4, 2023 – not enough time to attempt deflection and large enough to do real damage to a local area should it strike.

Worryingly, the chance of impact appeared to increase based on the first seven days of observations, followed by a dramatic week ‘in the dark’ as the full Moon outshone the potential impactor, ruling out further observations. As the Moon moved aside, the skies dimmed and ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC) took another look, only to find the chance of impact was dramatically falling.

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