Archives for August 2005
Posted by Davin Flateau on 2 Aug 2005 at 2:17 pm.
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Argh! I had a busy weekend/end of week, and wasn’t able to post about all the cool stuff that suddenly happened. Let’s start with a biggie you’ve undoubtedly heard about - NASA has found a tenth planet in the solar system!
Check out this FAQ from one Mike Brown, one of the co-discoverers of […]
Read ‘Xena The Warrior Planet’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 3 Aug 2005 at 3:03 pm.
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With no service station in sight, the Shuttle astronauts had to improvise a repair on the spacecraft’s underbelly armed with a Canadian robotic arm, a hacksaw and of course, duct tape. As it turned out, astronaut Steve Robinson only needed his hands, as he plucked the offending tile “filler” from its protruding position. […]
Posted by Davin Flateau on 9 Aug 2005 at 10:38 am.
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I’ve had more than a few people come up to me recently asking about an email forwarded to them by a friend. The email got their attention because it talks about an upcoming spectacular view of Mars. Maybe you’ve seen the email, which includes the claims:
“The Red Planet is about to be […]
Read ‘The Great Mars Hoax of 2005’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 10 Aug 2005 at 1:45 pm.
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It seems that objects in our Universe are rarely alone. Most of the stars you see in the night sky are actually made up of two or more stars, we know that planets in our own solar systems often have one or more moons. We’ve even discovered double asteroids orbiting one […]
Read ‘Triple Asteroid Discovered!’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 11 Aug 2005 at 1:51 pm.
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It’s that time of year again! Right around August 12 , the Earth floats through the dust deposited from Comet Swift-Tuttle, and we get a spectacular show in the form of the Perseid meteor shower! This is usually the best meteor shower of the year, and this year’s no exception.
To see the meteor […]
Read ‘Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight’
Posted by Davin Flateau on 17 Aug 2005 at 10:02 am.
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The Milky Way Galaxy is home to our sun, and billions of our closest friends and neighbors.
So what does the Milky Way look like? You’d think it would be an easy question to answer about our own galaxy, but astronomers have an interesting problem in trying to this out from our vantage […]
