mushroom on today's walk

So I needed an 1 1/8 headset for a bike build and was looking hard at a Chris King for $200, then realized I had some nos headsets in a parts bin, so maybe this Deore XT will work.
Unless putting an mtb headset on a road frame is heresy.

Picked up this Revere mantle clock with"Westminster chime" at a garage sale today

Saw these Schwinns today

New bike #tools showed up in the post today.
Hozan C-402 and 401 taps for bottom brackets and crank arms.
#wrenching
#bikesky

Pluto, sadly demoted to dwarf planet status, has axial tilt of nearly 120 degrees, so it spins way over on it's side - "polar wander," possibly from frozen nitogen accumulating at the poles.
Surface temp -240C at the equator, so bring a jacket.
Amazing, an atmosphere in the buh-bye image.
#pluto

Three Apollo missions and two Soviet probes left lunar retroreflector arrays so observatories on Earth could bounce lasers off them to messure the moon's distance.
Yes, the moon is moving away.

ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/missions/sat...

From Spaceweather:
:...a surprising X1.2-class solar flare from the sun's western limb, followed today by an even stronger X2.7-flare from new sunspot 4087. Earth-orbiting satellites have detected four significant explosions"
Image credit:
Pepe Manteca on May 14, 2025 @ Begues, Catalonia, Spain

NASA's Messenger spacecraft discovered the planet Mercury has water ice at the poles, "frozen at locations that never see the sunlight, made possible by the fact that the tilt of Mercury’s rotational axis is almost zero."
#mercury

The far side of the moon always faces away from the Earth and wan't revealed until the Soviet Luna 3 mission in 1959.
Photo from the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis 1 mission.

#darksideofthemoon

"Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s LRO Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission."
#moon
#water
#lro

Full moon incoming.
#fullmoon