A Japanese baseball game between the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and the Yakult Swallows played Ringu‘s Sadako and The Grudge‘s Kayako in a publicity stunt. Apparently a crossover movie is in the works. This is definitely a more horror-filled swing than that time Karloff took to home plate in full Frankenstein Monster make-up at a 1940 Hollywood Stars game.

Below: a meteor blazes over Phoenix, corporations look to the stars (or at least the moon and the asteroid belt), and cosplayers cosplay.

The U.S. government may be approving the first private moon mission, while Luxembourg plans to get into the space mining business. Maybe they’ll use asteroid-based spaceships.

Last week saw a very bright meteor over Arizona:

And some cosplay, of course—this time, from Phoenix Comic-Con: