Archive for the ‘Space’ Category
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
The European Southern Observatory has just discovered a planet that resebles Earth more closesly than any ever found before. Here are the basic details:
The planet has a diameter of 1.5 that of Earth's
The planet has a mass 5 times that of Earth's
The planet orbits a Red Dwarf (These produce less ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
NASA has just released tones of 3-D images of the Sun takes by its new STEREO telescopes. STEREO was launched in in October 2006. the way it works is that there are two telescopes each orbiting at diffrent places around the Earth (one ahead and one behind). They're kind of ...
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Apparently the defenition I previously gave was still beta. It is now "Officially" as follows:
"A celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around ...
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Sunday, August 13th, 2006
It all started 3 years ago when astronomers in California discovered a planet/large object in our solar system called Xena. This was to be our tenth planet. It was slightly larger than Pluto (1,490 vs. 1,422 miles in diameter) Many other astronomers claimed that it is not a planet. This ...
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
The Russians plan to launch a space program to go to Mars in three years. Not only that, but they plan on comming back too. The European Space Agency also wants to go in 2011.
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
This site shows the physics behind the Death Star's powerful laser that blows up planets.
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Apparently according to a guy who "tracked a UFO traveling at 15,000 knots" a comet fragment is supposed to hit the mid-atlantic and send a huge wave accross the globe. Now when taking information from a guy who has had "various experiences with extraterrestrials since 1977" remember to look at ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Pretty cool. Google now has a map of Mars. First came Google Earth, then came Google Moon, now theres Google Mars
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
*GASP!* This may just be the greatest discovery that human kind has made ever since it entered the space realm. It appears that Saturn's moon "Enceladus" has water on it. The water channels erupt like the ones in Yellowstone Park. They think that under a thick layer of ice there ...
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Monday, March 6th, 2006
Interesting....
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