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Arctic 'warmest in 2,000 years'
" Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Changes to the Earth's orbit drove centuries of cooling, but temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human... Amateur astronomer discovers Jupiter collision
21 July, 2009– " Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, sits behind the solar system's largest planet, April 2007. Ganymede completes an orbit around Jupiter every seven days. (NASA: ESA/E Karkoschka (University of Arizona), fileman) " " An amateur astronomer from the small...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 23 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago
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Japan to launch ‘suicide’ satellites to clear space junk
With space junk increasingly becoming an important problem for the functionality of the International Space Station (ISS) and commercial satellites circling the Earth’s orbit, Japanese space scientists came up...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago
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683 views | 17 recommendations | 2 comments
Huge asteroid passes close to Earth
An asteroid has passed close to Earth say scientists, and it could be as big as a ten-storey building. It is known as 2009, DD45, and could be as big as 21-47 meters across. " The gap was just 72,000 km (44,750 miles); a fifth of the distance between our planet and the Moon.... U.S. and Russian satellites collide
This is very unusual. As far as I know this has not happened before. " The international space station does not appear to be threatened by the debris, they said, but it's not yet clear whether it poses a risk to... Satellites Collide in Orbit
Do satellites ever collide with one another in space? Yes. In fact, it just happened. A derelict Russian satellite, defunct for the past ten years, collided with an operational-until-just-now communications satellite operated by Iridium LLC. The debris created by the... Iran launches first home-made satellite
Iran has placed its first home-built satellite Omid in orbit using a Safir-2 rocket in a move that is set to raise new concerns in the international community. The Omid (Hope) satellite, sent into space as... Earth Moon Orbit
The Moon orbits the Earth and the Earth orbits the sun but is it the Earths Centre that is in orbit around the Sun or the "mass moment point" which connects the Moon to the Earth?.40th anniversary of Apollo 8
"Washington, Dec 22: The US space agency marked the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 8 mission that brought three astronauts to orbit the moon for the first time. On December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 blasted... Space Shuttles Will Be Sold After 2010 Retirement - NASA
NASA has announced that the final three Space Shuttles will be sold after they are retired in 2010. After nearly 30 years of service, and over 120 missions into orbit, NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet will...
created by Jared Aicher - Storm Chaser | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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1469 views | 39 recommendations | 20 comments
Full Moon Biggest and Brightest in 15 Years, December 12, 2008
The full moon Friday evening could potentially appear up to 30% brighter and 14% bigger than normal. The moon's elliptical orbit means that tonight it will pass earth at a distance of just over 350 000km from... India launches first moon mission
Countless hours and India's much talked dream Moon mission has come true. India has sucessfully launched its first unmanned mission to the moon.Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned mission to the... The big lie with nuclear world waste, shoot it in the sun or elevate it into ...
Nuclear wasteDo we have the right to pollute the Universe with nuclear waste ? 250 billion galaxies are out there. Our favourite Nuke scientists betrayed us over years. They never intend really to store the... China's astronauts in orbit, prepare for spacewalk
After successfully putting Astronauts in orbit, Astronauts are now ready to for the space walk. Also on earlier occasions China's astronauts were wearing diapers in abscence of toiltets. The... Is this the first picture of an alien planet in orbit around a sun just like ...
"Scientists believe they have taken the first picture of a planet orbiting a star similar to the sun. The distant world is giant (about eight times the mass of Jupiter) and lies far out from its star (about 330...
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