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July 10, 2010Asteroid Flyby Tomorrow-European Probe Closing InSend by cantoralOn Saturday the European probe Rosetta will swoop past 21 Lutetia, the largest and least understood asteroid yet visited. Rating:  5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 10, 2010Hayabusa Contains A Hint Of Dust From Asteroid ItokawaSend by armageddonsaviodozen of 0.01mm dust grains'll take several weeks to confirm whether particles are from asteroid Itokawa(Nov25,2005),(Launched in 2003).data on asteroid shape,terrain,surface altitude distribution,mineral composition,gravity,way it reflects Sun's rays being analyzed. Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 10, 2010Rosetta Homes In On Target AsteroidSend by suthersA European spaceprobe is on final approach to fly past the biggest asteroid ever visited. The billion-euro unmanned Rosetta will make its closest approach to a giant space rock called Lutetia on Saturday. Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 11, 2010Asteroid Capsule Recovered As Hayabusa Craft Ends Mission In FireballSend by USA TodayA Japanese space capsule that may contain asteroid dust has been recovered from the Australian Outbreak, hours after its parent craft ended a seven-year ... Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 10, 2010Xkcd: AsteroidPosted by Hellen PopovichPermanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/618/. Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/asteroid.png ... Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
July 11, 2010European Space Agency Looking Closely At Asteroid (AP)Posted by Hellen PopovichAP ? The European Space Agency has taken the closest look yet at asteroid Lutetia in an extraordinary quest some 280 million miles in outer space between Mars and Jupiter. Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 12, 2010Objectives And GoalsPosted by Hellen PopovichAn evil-doer without an objective is a most tragic thing indeed. All that sinister potential going to waste, sitting around unused? It?s no wonder the world is in the state it?s in today. You will therefore want to come up with an evil purpose, something to devote your life towards and direct your d ... Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 12, 2010Doomsday Asteroid : Apophis To Hit Earth 2029-2036 Scientists Warn ...Send by Stars & Astronomy25 Responses to ?Doomsday Asteroid : Apophis to hit Earth 2029-2036 Scientists Warn?. GhettoKarter1992, on July 13th, 2010 at 1:42 am Said: @savagekid94, or Bernie Mac being replaced to The Angry Video Game Nerd on 2017 ... Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 10, 2010Ohnotheydidnt: DAT ASTEROID.Send by i'm scared of jellyfish and miAstronomer Kryachko Timur, one of the fan-club weir.ru, discovered the asteroid in 1995, suggested naming it in honor of an athlete and submitted a request to the Minor Planet ?enter USA. To date, Johnny Weir is the only [male] skater, ... Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 12, 2010How To Protect Your Serenity Against The Negative Bias Of Daily News (Part 3 Of 6)Posted by Hellen PopovichHow did they achieve such independence in their thinking? What are the keys behind their psychological stability? Do these people possess special genetic characteristics or does their behaviour denote a learned response? How can we protect our serenity against the negative bias of daily news? The fo ... Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 10, 2010'Minute Particles' Found In Asteroid Pod | COSMOS MagazineSend by beckyTechnical problems plagued the journey of Hayabusa, which at one stage spun out of control and lost contact with JAXA for seven weeks, delaying the mission for three years until the asteroid and Earth re-aligned. ... Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
July 10, 2010Rosetta Probe Approaches Asteroid LutetiaSend by Duncan GeereThe spacecraft, which is called Rosetta, will pass within 3162 kilometres of the centre of the 100km-wide asteroid 21 Lutetia at a speed of about 54000 kilometres per hour. It'll take pictures, measure the asteroid's temperature, ... Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 10, 2010European Space Agency's Rosetta Spacecraft Will Fly Past Asteroid ...Posted by Hellen PopovichEuropean Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will fly past asteroid Lutetia this Saturday, July 10. via jpl.nasa.gov http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-228 Loading mentions. Retweet ... Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 11, 2010Rosetta's Closest Asteroid Flyby PhotosSend by tweetleaksprevious image | next image >> The Rosetta spacecraft took its first close-up images of the asteroid Lutetia today, revealing it to be a heavily cratered, elongated rock. Rosetta got within 2000 miles of the asteroid, which is about 80 ... Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 11, 2010Rosetta To Fly By Asteroid Lutetia - Hrd's BlogSend by HrdESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make its closest approach to asteroid Lutetia today (1544GMT) as it heads towards comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for a 2014 rendezvous. Reference: http://ping.fm/aGimV. Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
July 10, 2010Asteroid - Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaPosted by Hellen PopovichAsteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are smaller than planets ... Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |